To me the Octane's color is too blue to be "purple", the SGI Indigo10000 on the other hand is purple on the indigo palette: https://www.vintagecomputer.net/SGI/Indigo2_10000/ https://www.color-hex.com/color-palette/2792 So. On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 5:19 PM Andrew Diller via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Woah there. There is no such thing as a bad SGI. Every one of them at least ran IRIX, no matter the systems-level design (or lack thereof).
Also, the octane was not purple. And many wanted a purple computer. Or at least found out they did.
-andy
On Jun 23, 2021, at 5:04 PM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On 6/23/21 4:55 PM, Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
The Atari ST was similar CPU, no idea why it could achieve faster performance. Early Macs sure are pretty sluggish though.
It's pretty easy to hamstring a fast processor with poor systems-level design. Look at the SGI Indigo2 R10K systems, for example. An Octane with the same CPU at the same clock speed runs rings around it.
-Dave
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