[sclug] GNU on Quirky Architecture

[Jon Masters]

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David Given wrote:

| There's a guy at work here with an Indy; unfortunately it's pretty much
| useless because the graphics card isn't supported. SGI have been really
| rather unforthcoming with the hardware specs. Make sure you get something
| supported!
|
| Check this out:
|
| http://www.debian.org/ports/mips/
|
| ...particularly the links list at the bottom (the 'Install XFree86 on the
| SGI/Indy - Howto' is definitely required reading...).

aside: It is worth picking one of these up if you decide you want one.
CAAQA (Computer Architecture: A Quantitive Approach) and other really
good books on Computer Architecture and systems programming tend to
really still like MIPS.

Jon.

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