[Irinikus]

I will still play Quake, even if only in software mode, on my IRIS Indigo. It's an R4400@150MHz with Elan Graphics. (Just imagine a machine of this vintage running quake!!!)

I still have to get a mouse and keyboard for it, and because I built it up it's still running the R3000 power Supply, which is okay to test the system, but I'll also have to source an R4000 power supply for it.

If it actually pulls it off, it will be one of the most impressive performances I've seen! (It should pull it off as my Indy R4400@200MHz with XZ graphics does!)

It's a project for a later date.

[uunix]

The problem is, it's like countries measuring their death rates in current situation... to many factors.. BUT saying that, I went from Octane V12 2x600 to a Fuel 800 many years back, and I have to say, that FUEL was soo snappy at the desktop and a lot of other things. At that time though, I could only compare a few desktop things, the FUEL in reality did nothing, as I worked with discreet I couldn't compare. Now move on a few years and the Tezro.. well that's something else and my Tezro has a balance, 2x800.. speed/noise. It's not the fastest out there, but it's faster than anything else I have and combines the ability to do rendering tasks / desktop nice and fast also.

Now, I will throw in my IBM P5 with 7.1. An interest beast, single 900MHz CPU but with 32GB RAM. Some may recall I wrote a lottery predicting pile of crap some years back. The IBM can shift out 10 million draws in under 10 mins based on an xlC compile, yet the Tezro takes around 50 mins on a MIPSPro compile.

The IBM though acts like a pig doing anything else, including it's own IBM SMIT product installs. So who know.

Of late and in the lock down, (not quite a lock down for me as I still have to go to work each day, but no fscker knows what I really do anyway, so I can mess with whatever) I have been building OS/2 domains using both physical and virtual machines. I've actually become a bit obsessed and even take that stupid manual to bed with me. Anyway, I'll be porting the lotto C++ program to OS/2 on x86 using visual C++ to see how that goes. That program though contains randomised aspects so cannot be infinitely judged in reality, but should be close within a few seconds I would think.

To say I have become obsessed with OS/2 is a bit of an understatement, (I used OS/2 for a decade some decades ago) I even purchased a few modems and created a bloody dial up link between my home and work.. why.. ffs.. because I could. The wife was moaning about the dial up AT dial tone shit.. she said "what's that noise" .. oh I love having a younger wife lol

Anyway I hope you are all well.. keep safe.

[jirka]

 the O2 was the cutest thing ever, and the most unreliable.

Well, I have been using my SGI O2 for 15 year on almost daily basis...  And it was already 7 years old when I got it.
I only had to replace 2 CD drives but nothing more (well, I upgraded HDD several times).

In other hands: when I used once started the Firefox on a R4k/250 Indigo2 I was shocked because it ran much faster than the same thing on the my O2 (it's R10k/250).

[arhiman57]

For me definitevly my maxed out Elan R4000 Indigo1 150Mhz, 384mb and a 36gb 15k disk with 5.3 (a wonderfull config from Ian from 2009/2010).

[rycat]

I often think of opening a BDSM night club and having people wear gimp masks and collars... When we get down to business, I sit them in front of an Indigo1 R4k 100MHz with that 2x cdrom and a stack of IRIX 6.5 and .22 overlays with all the extras and compilers and have them get to work while whipping them

[vishnu]

At my place of employ, we used an Indy for many years to run PV Wave, it worked great! Decades later and PV Wave is still going strong:

https://www.perforce.com/products/pv-wave