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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Subject: Re: Crimson vs. R4000 Indigo. What's the difference?
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- Keywords: Crimson, Indigo, R4000
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <g!4mhnf.jchauvin@netcom.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 05:30:05 GMT
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- In <g!4mhnf.jchauvin@netcom.com> jchauvin@netcom.com (John H. Chauvin) writes:
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- | Can someone summaries the differences between a SGI Crimson and a R4000
- | Indigo workstation assuming they both have the Elan graphics package.
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- Expandability and I/O.
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- | I was planning on ordering a Crimson but I would much rather have the
- | small Indigo in my office. Why is the Crimson so big?
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- Same answer.
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- Crimson gives you lots of room for various VME (6U and 9U cards),
- more disks (2 SCSI channels instead of 1), and more memory when max'ed out.
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- Performance-wise, within the configuration constraints of the
- r4k Indigo, they are very similar.
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- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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