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12 October 2025
- 15:5415:54, 12 October 2025 Inst file formats (hist | edit) [3,286 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "This is a page documenting various parts of the IRIX 6.5 inst file formats. The goal here is to build a formal specification through reading and analyzing files. We do not intend to use disassembly or other methods to RE these formats if possible. == <code>/var/inst</code> — per-product record file format == === Overview === A product record file stores metadata for a single installed product. It contains: * A fixed ASCII signature and version * One or more TLV...") Tag: Visual edit
9 October 2025
- 03:5003:50, 9 October 2025 Installing Nekoware (hist | edit) [1,025 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Installing Nekoware is easy but requires knowledge of IRIX's inst system.") Tag: Visual edit
- 02:0002:00, 9 October 2025 Nekoware Packaging Guide (hist | edit) [8,927 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with " This article provides a basic introduction to packaging software for distribution through the Nekoware software archive. Nekoware's standards are reflected in the way we wrote this article. ==Required Equipment== ===Compilers=== For C-based, normal everyday programs we highly recommend using MIPSPro for compilation. If using C++, the type of C++ and complexity of the program will determine if fixing it for MIPSPro outweighs the work necessary to compiler. W...") Tag: Visual edit
4 October 2025
- 05:2805:28, 4 October 2025 Silicon Graphics (hist | edit) [4,011 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Silicon Graphics, Inc.''' (stylized as '''SiliconGraphics''' before 1999, later rebranded '''SGI''', historically known as '''Silicon Graphics Computer Systems''' or '''SGCS''') was the American high-performance computing manufacturer responsible for producing IRIX, NUMALink, and all SGI hardware. On April 1, 2009, SGI filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and announced that it would sell substantially all of its assets t...") Tag: Visual edit
29 September 2025
- 04:0704:07, 29 September 2025 CD Installation of IRIX (hist | edit) [3,916 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Note that CD Installation of IRIX requires good condition CDs, ideally originals, a CD drive in good mechanical condition, and if using burned CDs, a DAO (disc-at-once) CD burning program like ImgBurn or CDBurnerXP. For this reason, and the onerous task of disc swapping, we advise using a network install method.''' IRIX can be installed via a local CD drive. This tutorial covers IRIX 6.5.22, but other versions are broadly similar. == Required CDs == To successfully...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
27 September 2025
- 03:0503:05, 27 September 2025 4D1-2.x (hist | edit) [235 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "4D1-2.x was the public initial release family of the 4D1 systems before they were officially called IRIX. It uses MEX similar to the earlier GL2-3.x product. == Known information == Scant information of this release is known.") Tag: Visual edit
- 03:0003:00, 27 September 2025 Flexlm (hist | edit) [846 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Flex License Manager is a form of DRM used on IRIX and other UNIX systems to lock out features and programs and authenticate them in a centralized form. == Purpose == As prefaced, this is an early form of software DRM. The license files are a plaintext file containing all centralized flexlm license keys. It contains the registrant, serial info, expiration date etc. == License Locations == * <code>/var/flexlm/license.dat</code> Primary for most software. * <code>/etc/...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 02:5402:54, 27 September 2025 L1 Controller (hist | edit) [1,035 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "All of the systems based on the Origin 3000 and Chimera architecture (Fuel, Origin 3000, Onyx4, Origin/Onyx 3x0, Tezro) include a low-level hardware monitor, power management and startup/shutdown system called the L1 controller. This system does many things that earlier systems either lacked the capability of doing, or had a separate system that performed those functions, including holding serial numbers and configuring NUMA access. == Power commands == To start an...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 02:4002:40, 27 September 2025 XSGI (hist | edit) [1,074 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Xsgi''' is the IRIX 4.0 and up specific X11 implementation built to replace 4Sight. It implements X11R6 standards but is highly tailored to be specific to the SGI hardware context. == Early History == Work began around 1989 when SGI hired Tom Paquin from IBM to integrate X with SGI’s IRIS GL stack. At the time, SGI was using a NeWS-based GUI for 4D1 called 4Sight. NeWS was falling out of fashion in the late 1980s and early 1990s due to its heavyweight Post...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 02:1102:11, 27 September 2025 Indigo 2 Power Supply Information (hist | edit) [6,458 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''SGI Indigo 2 power supply''' is a common failure point of this system with issues often traced to aging passives and semiconductor circuitry. This page serves to catalog the information originally aggregated by Elf on SGUG but later removed (and restored against his will). He has granted an exclusive license for TechPubs to use and publish his information. == Pinout (Non-IMPACT) == The Indigo 2 power supply used in non-IMPACT systems is a multi-board switch-...") Tag: Visual edit
- 01:5601:56, 27 September 2025 O2 Power Supply Information (hist | edit) [3,878 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "This page serves to catalog the SGI O2 power supply information originally gathered by Elf of SGUG. Due to him deleting that post, and giving TechPubs an explicit license to use his information, we are rehosting them here in the wiki. Here is the power supply pinout from the O2 front plane perspective, looking from the back into the recessed cubby hole for the PSU: Power is supplied over a 24 pin Molex Mini-Fit BMI connector. This is like the Mini-Fit Jr. commonly...") Tag: Visual edit
24 September 2025
- 02:4602:46, 24 September 2025 Using Reanimator to Install IRIX (hist | edit) [7,776 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "This guide uses '''Reanimator''', described by the authors as "Reanimator allows Silicon Graphics IRIX network installation using a Raspberry Pi or VirtualBox" to install IRIX 6.5. Other versions of IRIX are supported. == Setting up the Installation == To enter Command Monitor, boot the SGI and click on "Stop for Maintenance dialog" or press Esc. Click on "Enter Command Monitor" or press "5" (on Indy, numbers can change on other SGI model). Two IP client addresse...") Tag: Visual edit
21 September 2025
- 22:1022:10, 21 September 2025 Onyx4 (hist | edit) [5,608 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''Onyx4''', is a rack-mounted, mid range server and workstation sold by Silicon Graphics from 2005 to 2007. This system uses MIPS-based processors, and shares architecture with the Origin 350. == Features == Each CPU brick has four PCI slots across two PCI busses. Each CPU brick also has a Fuel-style XIO slot, which can accept a DMediaPro DM3 card or a VPro graphics card. The first CPU brick in a system has a single PCI slot holding an IO9 BaseIO card with SC...") Tag: Visual edit
- 22:0822:08, 21 September 2025 Challenge L (hist | edit) [1,521 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''Challenge L''', sharing codename '''Eveready''' and '''Terminator''' with the Onyx systems, is a mid-range to high end HPC server available in deskside and rackmount formats starting in 1992. Three distinct CPU families were used for this model, all 64-bit. R4400, R8000 and R10000. === Challenge R4400 Configurations === {| class="wikitable" !Model !# of CPUs !CPU !CPU MHz !L2 cache !Memory !Enclosure |- |'''DM''' (Departmental) |1, 2 or 4 |R4400 |100, 150,...") Tag: Visual edit
- 17:2317:23, 21 September 2025 UNIX Tar (hist | edit) [701 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''tar''', short for '''tape archive''' is an archival format used on UNIX, Unix-like and BSD OSes for storing files. It simply groups files together in a concatenation, compression is provided separately by gzip, bzip2, xz/lzma, or zstd compression. IRIX also uses tar for its tardist format. == Implementations of tar for IRIX == Three implementations of tar for IRIX are available: * IRIX tar, the standard /sbin/tar command. It is not recommended to use this tar f...") Tag: Visual edit
- 17:1917:19, 21 September 2025 VRML (hist | edit) [1,340 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''VRML''' ('''Virtual Reality Modeling Language''', pronounced ''vermal'' or by its initials, originally—before 1995—known as the Virtual Reality Markup Language) is a markup language and file format for displaying 3D models in a web browser. == WRL file format == VRML is a text file format where, e.g., vertices and edges for a 3D polygon can be specified along with the surface color, UV-mapped textures, shininess, transparency, and so on.[1][2] URLs can be associ...") Tag: Visual edit
- 17:1217:12, 21 September 2025 Cray (hist | edit) [83 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Cray Research was a corporation owned by Silicon Graphics for a period of time.") Tag: Visual edit
- 16:4516:45, 21 September 2025 Hewlett Packard Enterprise (hist | edit) [306 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)''' is a high performance and enterprise computing company split off from the original Hewlett Packard corporation. It is the current rights holder of several pieces of SGI technology including NUMA, Cray, Itanium, IRIX, and more.") Tag: Visual edit
- 16:4316:43, 21 September 2025 Rackable Systems (hist | edit) [2,170 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Rackable Systems''', later known as '''Silicon Graphics International''' was the successor company of Silicon Graphics. Due to its abandonment of all "SGI" ideals and only using its name, this wiki henceforth refers to it as Rackable Systems or Rackable for short. == History == Rackable Systems Inc. went public in June 2005, with 6.25 million shares offered at $12 per share. In 2006, Rackable announced it had signed an agreement to a...") Tag: Visual edit
- 16:3216:32, 21 September 2025 The Great TechPubs Fiasco (hist | edit) [1,005 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "This page serves as an explanation for the data loss incurred by TechPubs Wiki in August of 2025 and explains steps taken to ensure this will not occur again. == Background == TechPubs was created in early 2025 by Raion to serve as a home for SGI documentation of a higher quality than other sites. == Disaster == Due to circumstances beyond Raion's control, in August of 2025, our host Virtarix lost our VPS, and all backups before anything could...") Tag: Visual edit
- 16:2116:21, 21 September 2025 ESP (hist | edit) [1,173 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with " '''E'''mbedded '''S'''upport '''P'''artners (ESP) is a system service that calls home with data to provide assistance with support issues. With the demise of Silicon Graphics it has become a major security issue. This page documents ESP for historical reasons. == Disabling ESP == Simply run <code>chkconfig esp off</code> and <code>/etc/killall esp</code> to terminate it immediately. == Extreme slow down on log in == ESP also works in conjunction with configmond,...") Tag: Visual edit
- 16:1116:11, 21 September 2025 NIS (hist | edit) [3,178 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Network Information Services''', also called '''Yellow Pages''' or '''yp''', is supported on IRIX. Similar to Active Directory or LDAP it provides indexing of hostnames and DNS configuration synchronization. == Transfer NIS Master In IRIX == Tar up the directory with the NIS flat files live in and copy it over to the new master. <pre> 8:12am dragon /etc/yp %ls aliases local.make.script.pre-6.5.x auto.direct mac auto.home...") Tag: Visual edit
- 16:0216:02, 21 September 2025 Nekochan.net (hist | edit) [1,508 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Nekochan.net was a website registered on January 21st, 2000 according to public WHOIS. It was founded by Nekonoko, real name Peter Plank, who started it for the purpose of discussing SGI software and hardware. In 2003, the Nekochan forums were started and Nekochan.net became an intensely popular icon in the Silicon Graphics community as the main hub for non-corporate users of SGI hardware and software. It was shut down May 21st, 2018 under alleged GDPR compliance issues....") Tag: Visual edit
- 15:5915:59, 21 September 2025 LTO Drive Configuration (hist | edit) [6,231 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "→HP Ultrium 1 / LTO-1: { DATTAPE, TPDAT, 2, 7, "HP", "Ultrium", →LTO-1: , 0, 0, {0}, MTCAN_BSF|MTCAN_BSR|MTCAN_APPEND|MTCAN_COMPRESS|MTCAN_PREV| MTCAN_SYNC|MTCAN_SPEOD|MTCAN_CHKRDY|MTCAN_VAR|MTCAN_SETSZ| MTCAN_SILI|MTCAN_SEEK|MTCAN_CHTYPEANY, →minimum delay on i/o is 4 minutes, because when a retry is <nowiki>*</nowiki> performed, the drive retries a number of times, and then <nowiki>*</nowiki> rewinds to BOT, repositions, and tries again.: 40, 5*60, 20*...") Tag: Visual edit
- 15:5815:58, 21 September 2025 UltimateVision (hist | edit) [1,172 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''UltimateVision''' was the final high-end graphics architecture that was SGI branded, with ATi (now AMD) providing the chipsets for the Onyx4 and Prism workstations. == Information == Introduced in 2006, UltimateVision was offered as the graphics option for SGI’s Prism and Onyx4 visualization systems,. The UltimateVision subsystem was designed to scale from a single high-performance graphics pipe to multi-pipe configurations for visualization walls, immersi...") Tag: Visual edit
- 15:4715:47, 21 September 2025 Sgidoom (hist | edit) [624 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''sgidoom''' was a demo of Doom on IRIX included with many IRIX demo CDs in the 1990s. == Specifications == It was designed to run on IRIX 5.3 and later. IRIX Doom was originally based on the unreleased DOS version 1.5, though later updates were based on versions 1.6 and 1.8. No effort was made to take advantage of SGI's advanced graphics hardware, and like many other ports the game was rendered entirely in software. sgidoom lacks sound, but includes sndserver fo...") Tag: Visual edit
- 15:3815:38, 21 September 2025 IRIX Install Using NetBSD Host (hist | edit) [9,404 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "This article describes installation of IRIX on an Indy, but it should work with slight modifications if applied to other systems. Refer to other installation guides for variance. This guide should work with a NetBSD machine of any architecture. It has been tested on a Pentium II, Raspberry Pi, and a Power Macintosh. === Setup of the Host Server === First, install NetBSD onto the host server machine. Great guides already exist for this, so please refer to the NetBSD...") Tag: Visual edit
- 15:3715:37, 21 September 2025 IRIX Install Using IRIX Host (hist | edit) [5,864 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "This article describes the installation of IRIX 6.5.30 on an SGI Fuel. The installation is performed over a local network (LAN), using a SGI Indy workstation as installation server. The main focus of this article is to demonstrate the feature of driving inst using a pre-written command file instead of manually performing all needed software selection steps. Although the example specifically describes an IRIX 6.5.30 installation, the demonstrated methods will work with an...") Tag: Visual edit
- 15:3515:35, 21 September 2025 MAME (hist | edit) [5,826 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Thanks to the MAME developers, the following emulated hardware/software combinations have at least some functionality. {| class="wikitable" | |OS version |Indy | colspan="3" |Indigo 2 |- | |IRIX 5.3.x |MAME 0.209+ | colspan="3" |MAME 0.210+ |- | |IRIX 6.2.x |MAME 0.210+ | colspan="3" |MAME 0.210+ |- | |IRIX 6.5.22 |MAME 0.210+ | colspan="3" |MAME 0.210+ |- | |IRIX 6.5.30 |N/A | colspan="3" |N/A |} 6.5.30 is not supported on the Indy or Indigo2 hardware, that doesn't chan...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 15:2515:25, 21 September 2025 Itanium (hist | edit) [6,649 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Itanium''', also known as '''IA-64''' and '''IPF (Itanium Processor Family)''' is an ISA and family of high performance CPUs created as a joint Hewlett Packard and Intel project starting in the early 1990s. It is notable for SGI's later usage of the Itanium 2 architecture for the Altix 350 and later systems. == History of Itanium == The Itanium project began in the late 1980s at Hewlett-Packard’s Fort Collins Design Center in Colorado. At the time, HP was expl...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 04:5904:59, 21 September 2025 Flexlm-License (hist | edit) [7,941 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Note: This is a HaxForce license found on an old usenet mailing list years ago. # # FLEXlm license file # ## FLEXlm License File FLMLF 1.0 ## Filename:/var/flexlm/license.dat FEATURE TV/Base toolworks 3.800 1-jan-0 0 1C466A88CDF55FAD72F6 HOSTID=ANY \ ISSUER="Hax Force, Inc." FEATURE TV/AnyChip-AnyOS toolworks 3.800 1-jan-0 0 ACB60AF81EC176CB3072 \ HOSTID=ANY ISSUER="Hax Force, Inc." FEATURE TV/AnyChip-AnyOS/MP/Big toolworks 3.800 1-jan-0 0 3...") Tag: Visual edit
- 04:5804:58, 21 September 2025 ARCS (hist | edit) [2,039 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "ARCS is the name for the firmware used by later SGI machines starting with the IRIS Indigo to boot an IRIX kernel and store important NVRAM variables. It's also commonly called in common parlance the '''PROM''' by users, though this generally refers to the physical chip storing ARCS. === Capabilities === ARCS is a fully graphical firmware that has basic understanding of TCP/IP (though it can't ping/trace and has no understanding of routes. It only knows TFTP and RSH...") Tag: Visual edit
- 04:5704:57, 21 September 2025 IPFilter (hist | edit) [7,294 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "IRIX does have an IPFilter port for people looking to use firewalls on their machines. This page details several uses of it. === Setup === IPFilter is an established open source software package written and maintained by Darren Reed under a modified BSD style license. Source code is available from the project's homepage. It claims to have been tested and run under IRIX 6.2<nowiki/>and IRIX 6.5 (loadable kernel module), however, there have reportedly been problem...") Tag: Visual edit
- 04:5604:56, 21 September 2025 Inst (hist | edit) [1,958 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "inst is the package and installation utility, appearing in GL2-3.x and used through IRIX 6.5 and is supplemented by swmgr, an graphical frontend (the relationship is similar to aptitude and synaptic) to the command line. inst is used for installing and uninstalling programs, applying patches and more. === General Operations === inst can be started from within IRIX by typing "inst" as root to access the full menu, but '''it can be run as a user, but it will be r...") Tag: Visual edit
- 04:5504:55, 21 September 2025 Gentoo Prefix-Portage for IRIX (hist | edit) [8,628 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with " On Nekochan in 2009, user Stuart posted that he had gotten Gentoo Prefix, a type of Portage port to other systems, working on IRIX. This article is an archive/documentation of that effort. Due to the 12-year gap from the time of writing this adaptation of his methods, this article is posted without warranty or guarantees. === History === Stuart posted on his initial post that he had quit working on pkgsrc (a NetBSD project) for the following reasons: * The build proce...") Tag: Visual edit
- 04:5404:54, 21 September 2025 Add Images to Visual Login (hist | edit) [530 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Use chkconfig to make sure that visuallogin is set to on and noiconlogin to off. The icons (SGI RGB format, at least 100x100 pixels) can be placed in the following locations: /$HOME/.icons/login.icon /usr/lib/faces/$USER /usr/local/lib/faces/$USER $USER is the login name of the user, $HOME the home directory. Remember, no file extension is needed after the name of the image. $USER is not a directory, but an actual rgb image file with the name of the account that it...") Tag: Visual edit
- 04:5304:53, 21 September 2025 Network Setup (hist | edit) [3,978 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "IRIX unlike modern Linux distros, Windows and macOS necessitates some level of manual configuration. Some of the tasks here can be accomplished via the GUI, but it is valuable to understand the networking stack in IRIX. === Major Components === IRIX's network stack consists of several components: * inetd - This not only controls the major network services, like telnet and rlogind, it also controls the network and updates to the network necessitate restarts of inetd. *...") Tag: Visual edit
- 03:3803:38, 21 September 2025 Prism (hist | edit) [3,301 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Prism sucks") Tag: Visual edit
- 03:3803:38, 21 September 2025 Visual Workstation 540 (hist | edit) [997 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "VW 540") Tag: Visual edit
- 03:3803:38, 21 September 2025 Visual Workstation 320 (hist | edit) [1,140 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "alt=The front of a VW 320 system with the shutter door closed. Courtesy of Irinikus.|thumb|The front of a VW 320 system with the shutter door closed. Courtesy of Irinikus. VW 320 placeholder") Tag: Visual edit
- 03:3503:35, 21 September 2025 EFS (hist | edit) [818 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "EFS is a 32-bit filesystem introduced in GL2-3.x that provided greater filesystem sizes over the old System III filesystem used in early GL2 releases. However, it's limited to a 8GB volume size and 2GB file size, which led, along with performance and system concerns to its replacement in IRIX 6.0 and 5.3 XFS") Tag: Visual edit
- 03:3403:34, 21 September 2025 XFS (hist | edit) [4,015 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "XFS is a high performance filesystem introduced in IRIX 5.3 and IRIX 6.0 to replace EFS, a synchronous filesystem that lacked performance, stability and size capabilities afforded by XFS.") Tag: Visual edit
- 03:3303:33, 21 September 2025 MEX (hist | edit) [537 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''MEX''' ('''m'''ultiple '''ex'''posure) is a windowing system used on 68k-based GL2-2.x and GL2-3.x. MEX was introduced in GL2-2.x as a locally run GUI system. All programs were loaded by typing the command in the terminal prompt, it lacked title bars and had limited color palettes and resolution. It's speculated some compatiblity was retained in the early 4D1 System V releases, but very little of this has survived. File:MEX GUI.png|alt=MEX GUI from GL2 (Pr...") Tag: Visual edit
- 02:5702:57, 21 September 2025 O2 (hist | edit) [9,442 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The Silicon Graphics O2, codename Moosehead, is an entry-level Unix workstation introduced in 1996 by Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) to replace their earlier Indy. Like the Indy, the O2 uses a single MIPS microprocessor and was intended to be used mainly for multimedia. Its larger counterpart was the SGI Octane. The O2 was SGI's last attempt at a low-end workstation. == Features == O2 features a proprietary high-bandwidth Unified Memory Architecture (UMA) that connects th...") Tag: Visual edit
- 02:5602:56, 21 September 2025 Octane (hist | edit) [9,317 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The Octane and its later version, the '''Octane2''', code named Speed Racer, is a high end workstation marketed by Silicon Graphics between 1996 and 2004. Replacing the Indigo2, it is an SMP-capable (dual CPU) machine running the MIPS R10000 to R14000 series of processors. The main differences between the Octane2 and the Octane are configuration-related. The Octane 2 has upgraded motherboard, power supply, front plane and graphics options, but it's entirely possible to r...") Tag: Visual edit
- 02:5602:56, 21 September 2025 Origin 2000 (hist | edit) [3,362 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "For the graphics deskside variant, see the Onyx2 article The SGI Origin 2000, code name ''Lego'', is the successor of the SGI Challenge line. Sold in deskside, rack and multi-rack configurations, the Origin 2000 is a highly modular and scalable system. == Features == Each Origin 2000 module is based on nodes that are plugged into a midplane. Each module can contain up to four node boards, two router boards and twelve XIO options. The modules are then mounted inside a d...") Tag: Visual edit
- 02:5502:55, 21 September 2025 Onyx2 (hist | edit) [6,642 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "For the rack variant, see the Origin 2000 article The SGI Onyx2, code name ''Kego'', is the successor of the SGI Onyx. The Onyx2's basic system architecture is based on the Origin 2000, but the midplane and some parts such as the IO6 are different between models. The Onyx2 is notable for the InfiniteReality2, 2E and 3 boards it usually is equipped with, as well as its imposing size, weight and aesthetics. == Features == The Onyx2 deskside form factor can handle up to 4...") Tag: Visual edit
- 02:5502:55, 21 September 2025 Origin 200 (hist | edit) [2,857 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''Origin 200''' is a midrange server replacing the SGI Challenge M. It is the server counterpart to the Octane but shares its architecture with the Origin 2000.") Tag: Visual edit
- 02:5402:54, 21 September 2025 Onyx (hist | edit) [45,549 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with " The Silicon Graphics Onyx (frequently known as the Onyx1 or Original Onyx, or by its form-factor specific codenames Eveready and Terminator) is a graphics supercomputer introduced by Silicon Graphics in 1993 to replace their short-lived Crimson. Also based on the POWERpath-2 Everest architecture, the Onyx is closely related to the Challenge L/XL systems offered by SGI during the same time period, and shares many parts. In general, the difference between an Onyx and a Ch...") Tag: Visual edit
- 02:5302:53, 21 September 2025 Indigo 2 (hist | edit) [5,029 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The Indigo 2, codenamed "Fullhouse" is a high end workstation marketed by Silicon Graphics from 1993 to 1997, with production of IMPACT models ending in 1998. The Indigo 2 succeeded the earlier IRIS Indigoline and is the higher end version of the Indy. == Features == The Indigo 2 is a large teal or purple desktop that is deceptively heavy, around 40lbs. It came with two plastic feet which can be used to set it upright vertically. ==== CPU ==== The Indigo 2 has three di...") Tag: Visual edit