[Gllug] For Sale - SGI O2 + Origin Server (with prices)

[Adrian McMenamin]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Hearns [mailto:John.Hearns at micromuse.com]
> Sent: 23 July 2003 16:06
> To: Greater London Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] For Sale - SGI O2 + Origin Server (with prices)
> 
> 
> 
> Would the O2s make usable desktops? Can I realistically expect to run
> GNOME/KDE and Mozilla or OpenOffice on one of these beasties? Are they
> just to be considered as big X terminals? For £150 inc. 
> monitor I think
> I'll take one (close to Baker St. tube too ;-)
> 
> Sigh. How have the mighty fallen.
> You should really be asking if these things are still usable 
> for realistic
> tank battle
> simulators, finding nuclear test sites in the Siberian tundra 
> or segmenting
> and
> volume rendering MRI scan data on the fly.
> Sniff.
> 

At £150 they are really tempting, but I think I'd be sleeping on the street
for a week if I brought home another computer :/
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