Welcome here!
(04-18-2023, 05:40 PM)flygoat Wrote: A little bit background of myself, I'm a Chinese student doing undergrad in Scotland. I've been playing MIPS processors for some years. I'm familiar with MIPS low-level stuff. I'm also contributor/maintainer/reviewer of some open-source projects, namely Linux Kernel and QEMU.
Interesting! Ever looked at OpenBSD/sgi?
(04-18-2023, 05:40 PM)flygoat Wrote: I'm considering get my first IRIX system. I should be able to purchase one from Ian since it seems like he is really close to me, but I'm not sure if those stuff can live with house moving since as undergad I have to move my accommodation year by year.
An Indy or an O2 w/o plastics could be small enough, light enough and sturdy enough for your needs. If you netboot them you can even leave out the disk and save some weight there but need some additional infrastructure (e.g. RasPi 2B and/or Odroid HC1 or what's current; an Odroid M1 could do everything needed).
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