(computers & tech) FREE SGI Indy and O2 (North of Boston) (fwd)

[Jerry Feldman]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 18:08:01 -0400
Josh Pollak <pardsbane at offthehill.org> wrote:

> You guys laugh, but we've got a contract here that requires us to port
> 
> our Linux code to Irix, and the only box we've got is a pokey old O2. 
> Compound on to that the fact that we can't use GCC, we need to use 
> SGI's CC, and it keeps complaining about the license manager being 
> down. Oh yeah, and none of us know crap about adminning SGI's beyond 
> the basic Unix commands. Ugh.
> 
> I tried to convince the management we should be a newer, used SGI, but
> 
> I think they are too lazy too look for one. And we wouldn't know how
> to admin it.
I worked on a system that ran on Irix. A build of that system took
hours.

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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