[Beowulf] [External] Re: old sm/sgi bios

[Prentice Bisbal]

AIX crossed my mind as a contender, but fortunately my exposure to it 
was only a few times during a 2-3 month contract position, so I didn't 
feel qualified to judge it - it was definitely below toxic exposure 
limits.  What I did see wasn't very promising, though!

On 3/23/23 2:54 PM, Joe Landman wrote:
>
> Nah ... that honor belongs to HPUX or AIX. If you used them, you would 
> understand.
>
> Irix was my daily driver for ~7 years, until 1999 when I switched to 
> Linux (and stayed there up to this day).
>
> Work machine is a MacOS to Linux machines.  Home machines 70-30 linux 
> to mac.  No windows.
>
>
> On 3/23/23 14:50, Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf wrote:
>>> irix
>> Worst. Unix. Ever.
>>
>> On 3/23/23 1:07 PM, Michael DiDomenico wrote:
>>> ack, irix flashbacks... :) fortunately, this machine isn't quite that
>>> old, circa 2013
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 1:02 PM Darren Wise via Beowulf
>>> <beowulf at beowulf.org> wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I don't personally have such myself but anything SGI even with today's
>>>> exotics Ians about the most knowledgable I know of globally and
>>>> seriously dying out within this sector, I hazard a guess your SM board
>>>> would be considered quite new compared to other systems.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.sgidepot.co.uk/sgidepot/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Kind Regards,
>>>> Darren Wise
>>>> Research Engineer, Mechatronics
>>>> https://wisecorp.co.uk, .us & .ru
>>>>
>>>> On 23/03/2023 16:51, Michael DiDomenico wrote:
>>>>> does anyone happen to have an old sgi / supermicro bios for an
>>>>> X9DRG-QF+ motherboard squirreled away somewhere?  sgi is long gone,
>>>>> hpe might have something still but who knows where.  i reached out to
>>>>> supermicro, but i suspect they'll say no.
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