HCART@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK (11/01/90)
Our undergraduate lab is about to be given a 3120 with 380 meg
disk. IRIX for the machine has not been updated for at least a
couple of years, as far as I know, since I don't think it was
on a software maintenance contract, so I'm considering what
updates might be worthwhile.
I would really like to use the 'new' 3120 (or an existing 3130)
as a client running X windows to a Sun running Uniras under X windows.
Questions:
Will a 3120/3130 happily run X?
If so, will it run at a halfway decent speed?
Am I right in thinking I need 3.3.1 to run X? What is its cost
(plus anything else I would need to run X windows)?
All advice welcome.
Hugh Cartwright.
Physical Chemistry, Oxford.blbates@AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV ("Brent L. Bates AAD/TAB MS361 x42854") (11/02/90)
The 3000's have a completly different OS from the 4D's. The most recent OS version for the 3000's is 3.6 and SGI isn't going any farther. I don't know if you can run X on it or not. -- Brent L. Bates NASA-Langley Research Center M.S. 361 Hampton, Virginia 23665-5225 (804) 864-2854 E-mail: blbates@aero4.larc.nasa.gov or blbates@aero8.larc.nasa.gov
jim@baroque.Stanford.EDU (James Helman) (11/03/90)
Over the past several months, I have received quite a few inquires about X for 3000's. Despite the interest, to the best of my knowledge, no one has ported X to those machines. Jim Helman Department of Applied Physics Durand 012 Stanford University FAX: (415) 725-3377 (jim@KAOS.stanford.edu) Work: (415) 723-9127