ISO: SGI VW320 parts

[James Rice]

The Sgi VW320 and it's quad processor cousin the VW540 has no BIOS. 
It uses a real Unix style PROM and a small program called ARCLDR.EXE 
to enable Windows to boot.  I've used Tyan Thunder boards and the
320/540 is no where close to a standard Tyan board.

On 4/27/06, Ken Seefried <ken at seefried.com> wrote:
> I'm totally unfamiliar with the VW320 (which means this is undoubtedly
> useless advice), but at least some of the SGI Visual Workstations were
> secretly Tyan Thunder 2500 (aka S1867) based, and could be flashed to a far
> more forgiving Tyan BIOS.  Perhaps there's a similar sheep in wolves
> clothing here?
>


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