New (old) SGI Indigo2

[David Griffith]

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Chris M wrote:

> that stuph you download off the SGI site is commonly
> referred to as overlays. You need the basic 6.5.? set
> to begin with (in totality 18 cd's). Starting posting
> around. I had people offering to dump it onto a hard
> drive I'd send them and whatnot. I found a set though.
> There are issues regarding licensing - there's a
> license attached to each machine evidently. But who
> really gives a damn, right?

I seem to recall an SGI tech saying that posession of SGI hardware implies
that a licence to use Irix has already been bought and the license
transfers with the machine.  So, it's already paid for.  Of course, things
like MIPSpro C cost extra and are time limited.

I might have some Irix 6.5.x CD sets around here somewhere.

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David Griffith
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