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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Subject: Re: Graphic-Board swap possible???
- Message-ID: <noboong@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <tl0pr*Pu0@video1.bs.open.de>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 18:04:33 GMT
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- In <tl0pr*Pu0@video1.bs.open.de> achim@video1.bs.open.de (Joachim Gothe) writes:
- | we have 5 Indigo/Entry and we have the Animation-software "Softimage"
- | on 3 of them.
- | Next month we will get 3 Indigo-SX24 with Hardware Z-Buffer.
- |
- | A Softimage-licence only run on the computer, where it is installed.
- | It ask for the internal machine-number.
- |
- | I now want to swap the motherboards of the machines where softimage runs
- | to the machines with XS24-graphicboard or swap the graphicboards.
- |
- | Is it possible without problems, or must I change any settings in
- | System-Software of Hardware.
-
- Changing the graphics board should not affect the system id info
- (I assume they want the info from sysinfo or sysinfo -s).
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- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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