HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: SUTPHINWB@npt.nusc.navy.mil (SUTPHIN WILLIAM B)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Net News Setup
Date: 27 Jan 93 23:29:16 GMT

I'd like to set up a local news forum as well as be able to read
news like comp.sys.sgi.  I've ftp'ed cnews, nntp and nr from ftp.uu.net
but cnews doesn't want to compile very smoothly.

I'd like to know, before I attempt full scale ports, am I on the
right track here?  Has anyone done this before? etc, etc. I really
have no special love for source code; how about some SGI binaries?

Thanks
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Inst issue
Date: 23 Jan 93 19:07:43 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1993Jan22.150642.1476@biome.bio.ns.ca> silvert@biome.bio.ns.ca (Bill Silvert) writes:
| Noting the postings about inst, I would like to add a comment, which could
| be considered a request for a change.  Recently I installed a package
| which put stuff under /usr/local, and in the process changed some
| permissions and overwrote some files that I had put there.

Paul dealt with the rest of your request, but I'm *really* curious
about what files of your own were overwritten.  To the best of my
knowledge, there is only one product (IDO) that puts anything in
/usr/local/bin (or elsewhere in /usr/local), and it seems unlikely
that the names would match anything of your own (although not impossible,
of course).  Was this the 4.1 IDO, or some other package?  If not IDO,
let us know what it was, so we can fix it.
--
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
From: dkinney@chilidog.bothell.sgi.com (Dan Kinney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: mcvert help
Keywords: mcvert cap
Date: 27 Jan 93 19:54:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: odin.1993Jan27.195429.18667
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

I am looking for some help with the mcvert utility in CAP.

My need is to add creator and file type resource information
to images moved from an SGI workstation to a Mac.  Is mcvert
able to do this?  Is there a better way?

I realize this can be done on the Mac with ResEdit, but that
won't be efficient as this process has to handle MANY files.

Follow-ups are fine, but email will reach me faster (this is
a hot-fire issue at this time).

Thanks,

dan

-- 

   Dan Kinney				Live: (206)487-6275
   Silicon Graphics, Inc. 		VMail: 9068
   Seattle, WA           		EMail: dkinney@bothell.sgi.com
From: pj@sam.wpd.sgi.com (Paul Jackson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Shell script problem
Date: 22 Jan 93 08:43:23 GMT
Reply-To: pj@sgi.com
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Research & Development
NNTP-Posting-Host: sam.wpd.sgi.com

In article <81288@hydra.gatech.EDU>, ccoprrm@prism.gatech.EDU (Robert E. Minsk) writes:
|>   I have a shell script that creates a temporary directory writes some files
|> to the directory then does a rm -rf "directory".  The files are removed but
|> the directory remains.  If I try to do a rmdir in the shell script it 
|> return "Directory not empty".  Parts of the shell script is listed below.
|> 
|> #!/bin/sh
|> SLATEDIR=/usr/tmp/slate.$$
|> trap "rm -rf $SLATEDIR" 0 1 2 3 15
|> mkdir $SLATEDIR
|> "write some stuff in $SLATEDIR"
|> exit 0

The following works fine for me on 4.0.5:

    #!/bin/sh
    SLATEDIR=/usr/tmp/slate.$$
    trap "rm -fr $SLATEDIR" 0 1 2 3 15
    mkdir $SLATEDIR
    touch $SLATEDIR/a
    exit 0

Try it -- if it works for you, then the part about "write some
stuff in $SLATEDIR" must be relevant.  If it doesn't work
verbatim for you, then somethings WREK'd.

-- 

				I won't rest till it's the best ...
				Software Production Engineer
				Paul Jackson (pj@sgi.com), x1373
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: R4K Wanted$$
From: Malarkey@kcbbs.gen.nz (Ron Young)
Date: 27 Jan 93 20:02:16 GMT
Organization: Kappa Crucis Unix BBS, Auckland, New Zealand

 Hi all, I'm shopping for a R4k, I will be winging to USA next month and was
hopeing to pick up a new/second hand unit while there, I'm after a W-RPC50 or
W-RPC50XS with 32 megs, as always depending on price. I'm also after a PHOTRON
IND/24 If anybody could advise on dealers/resellers etc for these.
My Itinerary isn't fixed yet so any location is ok.
 Thanks in advance.
 
Ps. if anyone reading has this sort of thing for sale please email me with asking
price, config, contact etc. thanks again
 
 
 Hi all, I'm shopping for a R4k, I will be winging to USA next month 
and was
hopeing to pick up a new/second hand unit while there, I'm after a W-RPC50 
or
W-RPC50XS with 32 megs, as always depending on price. I'm also after 
a PHOTRON
IND/24 If anybody could advise on dealers/resellers etc for these.
My Itinerary isn't fixed yet so any location is ok.
 Thanks in advance.
 
Ps. if anyone reading has this sort of thing for sale please email me 
with asking
price, config, contact etc. thanks again
 
 
------------*AM I HAVING FUN YET?!

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: b259phl@utarlg.uta.edu (PHILIP LIPPEL)
Subject: Re: SGI FILE FORMAT (please post)
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: The University of Texas at Arlington
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:43:00 GMT

In article <30741@castle.ed.ac.uk>, eonu24@castle.ed.ac.uk (I Reid) writes...
>Malcolm Bersohn asked:
>  >    Does anyone know where I can find a detailed description of the
>  >file format of the SGI image files?
> 
>All the replies so far referred to the Demo code directory which, unfortunately
>we no longer have (it's a long story). I want to take sgi rgb files (the output
>images from a volume renderer), take them home and view/manipulate them on my
>pc so....
> 
>Could some kind soul please post details of the format (assuming it's not
>covered by some horrendous copyright).
> 
>Many thanks,
> 
>Iain
As an alternative, you might try using tosun to convert to sun raster format
on the SGI and then use PC software that knows sun.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: super@evax0.eng.fsu.edu
Subject: mail problem !!!
Organization: Famu/Fsu College of Engineering
Date: 24 Jan 93 11:59:56 EST


When I try to use mail to send a mail to somebody, I get the following 
messages:

Loop while matching ruleset 0, line 507
Loop while matching ruleset 0, line 539
Loop while matching ruleset 0, line 507
Loop while matching ruleset 0, line 539
Loop while matching ruleset 0, line 476
Loop while matching ruleset 0, line 477
Loop while matching ruleset 0, line 507
Loop while matching ruleset 0, line 539
rewrite: expansion too long

And I can never send out my mail. Also I never receive any bounced 
info. Does that mean the mail system in my SGI has not been setup ?
How can I fix this problem ? Any comments ? (BTW, the 'ftp' and 
'telnet' work fine in my SGI).

Thanks in advance.

Zhiyun 
super@evax0.eng.fsu.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: mxer@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Frank Jansen)
Subject: Archive program(s)
Organization: Victoria University of Wellington
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:09:22 GMT

Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Archive system
Summary: 
Followup-To: 
Distribution: world
Organization: Victoria University of Wellington
Keywords: archive,unix.SGI

Greetings,
          I'm looking for an archive program(s) that users run to copy files to
a disk pool somewhere in the system from where they're soon copied to tape. The
user retrieves the files when necessary, he may have to wait for operator's
to retrieve the files from tape in case the files haven't been accessed for
a while. We run irix on an SGI. Thanks in advance.
-- 
Frank Jansen, mxer@kauri.vuw.ac.nz , ZL2TTS    Phone: +64 4 4721 000 extn 8057
Computing Services Centre,                     Fax:   +64 4 4712 070
Victoria University of Wellington,      
P.O. Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: penev@venezia (Penio Penev)
Subject: Re: PostScript "Editor"
Organization: Rockefeller University
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 04:32:51 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Reply-To: penev@venezia.rockefeller.edu
X-Posted-From: venezia.rockefeller.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

David M. Senseman (senseman@lucy.brainlab.utsa.edu) wrote:
: A friend of mine asked me to find out if there are any
: software packages (hopefully free :) that can used to
: "edit" a PostScript file on an Indigo (4.0.5F).
: 
: He's using Mathematica to generate graphs of data sets
: and wanted something that could be used to manipulate
: titles, arrows, etc.
: 

Intepreting PS is not a trivial task. I think Adobe has Adobe
Illustarator, which tries to do this, or part of it. 

The better way to solve the problem is to look where it originated -
Mathematica. It has a lot of setup parameters for controlling the
outlook of graphs.  Perhaps a RTFM would help.

If the graph generation in Mathematica is poorly written, but the PS
driver is well written, a text editor and a PS manual would do the
job. One might be able sustitute the punctions for drawing labels,
axes etc. Of course, he will have a xpsview or ghostscript window
constantly popped to test the interventions.

I myself am interested in a good way to generate 2D graphs and haven't
found the sollution. Mathematica certaily is not. If anybody has,
please let me know.

-- Penio.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: mbersohn@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (M. Bersohn)
Subject: SGI FILE FORMAT
Organization: University of Toronto Chemistry Department
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:52:52 GMT

Hello SGI users:
    Does anyone know where I can find a detailed description of the
file format of the SGI image files? This appears to be a closely
guarded secret. Plenty of books will tell you about TIFF, PCX
etc. but the SGI hot line will not divulge the format of
something.rgb. I have full support on my machine but all the
support line could do was point me to some source code examples
in 4Dgifts. With a few weeks time, many of the routines call
each other, I might finally deduce what is the meaning of byte
0, what is stored at the four byte field beginning at byte 12
etc. etc. It sure would be nice to have an explicit description
so I could begin my real work today!
    Thanks in advance to anybody who knows and will divulge this
deep dark secret.
    Kindly email to me at
mbersohn@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca.
    Thanks.
Malcolm Bersohn
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: rg3h@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Rich Gossweiler)
Subject: ? for make gurus
Reply-To: rg3h@Virginia.EDU
Organization: University of Virginia Computer Science Department
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:25:54 GMT

I'd like to put all my .o files in a separate subdirectory.  On the
suns, I use a macro as shown below:


#
# all the object files to be created
#
VR_OBJS		= dynarray.o	sock.o		vr_comm.o	\
		timing.o	vr_init.o	vr_draw.o	\
		vr_file.o	vr_tree.o	vr_tracker.o	\
		vr_light.o	vr_glove.o	vr_util.o	\
		vr_timing.o

#
# Rule substitution -- prepend the .o files with subdirectory "sunobj/"
#
VR_OBJECTS	= $(VR_OBJS:%=sunobj/%)


sunobj/%.o:	$(INC) %.c
		@echo '>>>>> Making $@ <<<<<'
		$(CC) -c -o $@ $<
		@echo " "


$(VR_LIBRARY):	$(VR_OBJECTS)
		@echo "***** Creating library $@ *****"
		/bin/rm -f $@
		ar qv $@ $?
		ranlib $@
		@echo " "

The $(VR_OBJECTS) macro substitutes "sunobj/" in front of each .o file
(specified in the $(VR_OBJS) variabele).  I use this as the dependency
in making the VR library, and tell the compiler to put the .o files in
that directory.

Unfortunately, it appears as though I can't do this with the sgi make
macros. All I want to do is put the .o files in another directory, and
make the .c files be dependent on them, over in that subdirectory.
Anyone have any suggestions on how I might achieve this perplexing
goal?

Thanks,
Rich 


-- 
Rich Gossweiler (rg3h@cs.Virginia.EDU) | Education is mostly cleaning
CS Department, Olsson Hall             | erasers and waiting for lunch.
The University of Virginia             | 		-- Joe Bazooka
Charlottesville, Virginia 22903        |
From: jparker@aurora (John V. Parker (NASA/MSFC/ES44))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: f77 won't work on my Crimson
Date: 21 Jan 93 01:57:37 GMT

It took us a while (3+ months!) to get around to trying out the FORTRAN
compiler on our Crimson/VGX [too many other neat things to play with ;-) ],
but upon doing so we discovered that f77 (actually ugen) core dumps on even
the most trivial code:
	program test
	write(*,*) '!11-PDP eht edisni deppart m''I !pleH'
	stop
	end

The error message is usually:
	Fatal error in: /usr/lib/ugen  Signal 10 - core dumped

although on occasion I've gotten a SIG 11 while playing with compiler options.
I called the TAC (call #151880) but was regretfully informed that the 
warranty on our Crimson had expired (paperwork for a maintenance agreement
is lost somewhere in the NASA bureaucracy).  I'm sure something is just
incorrectly installed.  We are running Irix 4.0.5_, with 3.4.1 ftn.* and
the 3.4.4 maint_ftn.* images. I have re-installed the maint updates, but
not the entire Fortran package.
Any clues or quick fixes?  Or should I just re-install everything?  Or is it
something else seemingly unrelated?
TIA!
+------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
| John V. Parker                     | Phone:  (205) 544-1526              |
| NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center  |                                     |
| Earth Science and Applications Div.| e-mail: jparker@pcjvp.msfc.nasa.gov |
| ES44/Information Systems Branch    |         jparker@nasamail.nasa.gov   |
| MSFC, AL 35812                     |         storm::parker (NSI/SPAN)    |
+------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
From: warb@tgf.tc.faa.gov (Dan Warburton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: sun <-> sgi interfaces
Date: 22 Jan 1993 04:50:52 GMT
Organization: FAA Technical Center, Pomona, NJ	
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: offserv2.faa.gov
Summary: what h
Keywords: sun sgi socket


Hello, I am planning to purchase some IRIS Indigo's for our display laboratory.
But the data will be generated on a VME box using 60830's. I've interface these
to sun sparcs and the floating point formats are compatible. How much trouble
am I going to have interfacing to SGI equipment. Can I get by with careful design of struct's , or do I need to go to something like XDR?

Thanks for your help. E-mail if possible I might miss a post to this group.
--
Dan Warburton warb@faa.gov warb@tgf.tc.faa.gov warb@pilot.njin.net 
TGF (Target Generation Facility, an Air Traffic Control Simulator) 
FAA Technical Center, Atlantic City International Airport, NJ
08405  Mail Stop ACN-400c  Phone: 609-484-4480 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: tohanson@gonzo.lerc.nasa.gov (Jeff Hanson)
Subject: Re: monthly publications for SGI?
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:55:19 GMT

There is a PCI publication called Silicon Graphics World.  Their address is

Publications and Communications, Inc.
12416 Hymeadow Dr.
Austin, TX 78750-1896
VOX: 512-250-9023
FAX: 512-331-3900
sgi@pcinews.lonestar.org

Subscription rates are $75 for non US and $45 for US unless you are among
the free subscribers in which case you need to fill out the free
subscription form.  Call them or send mail to see if you can qualify.

Personally, I like it.  It has good ads particularily if you are looking for
3rd party disk, memory or parts or for used systems.  I get it for free so
this may influence my feelings towards it.
-- 
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Jeff Hanson - Scientific Graphics Programmer and Workstation Administrator
 Sverdrup Technology, NASA Lewis Research Center Group
 NASA Lewis Research Center, MS 86-4, Cleveland, Ohio 44135
 Telephone - (216) 433-2284  Fax - (216) 433-2182
 tohanson@gonzo.lerc.nasa.gov	-   ViSC: Better Science Through Pictures
 Visualize whirled peas - Bumper sticker seen in Buffalo, NY
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: rstatd doesn't work on Indigo r4k
Date: 27 Jan 93 05:38:51 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1993Jan26.182327.19873@inesc.pt> mag@minerva.inesc.pt (Manuel Gamito) writes:
| We've just installed a new Indigo r4k named "marge" and found out that sysmeter
| doesn't run with the following message:
| 
| "sysmeter: can't get stats: Remote system error"
| 
| Each time sysmeter is called the following line is added to ~adm/SYSLOG:
| 
| "marge rstatd[<somePid>]: read: iotim: No such device or address"

Known bug; no fix or workaround; fortunately the programs it affects
are seldom critical; also affects ruptime.
--
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
From: sgi.com!pdi!shoshana@BRL.MIL (Shoshana Abrass)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Where is xpsview?
Date: 25 Jan 93 20:09:53 GMT


  When I look at a machine that has all the inst subsystems on it, it
  claims that xpsview is from the subsystem called "dps_eoe". However,
  when I run inst and look at all my CDROM's, I can't find this subsystem
  listed except on the maintenance CD (OS = 4.0.5)

  Was it left off the "update" CD and put on the maintenance CD to make 
  up for the oversight?  Or is the base version on the development CD or 
  somewhere else? I'm a bit wary of installing just the maintenance 
  version of something...

  -shoshana
   shoshana@pdi.com
   Shoshana Abrass
   Pacific Data Images, Sunnyvale, CA
From: long@vax.ox.ac.uk (Neil J. Long)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.hardware
Subject: Re: Tek XP15 x-terms and 4Dwm - followup
Date: 27 Jan 93 20:37:31 GMT
Organization: Materials Department, University of Oxford

In article <long.58.728075467@vax.ox.ac.uk> long@vax.ox.ac.uk (Neil J. Long) writes:
>From: long@vax.ox.ac.uk (Neil J. Long)
>Subject: Tek XP15 x-terms and 4Dwm
>Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:11:07 GMT
>HI
>I am setting up some Tek XP15 terminals to run in a mixed host environment.
>Apart from the usual inconsistencies with the <= key between DEC, SGI, etc 
>the only major problem I am having is that 'endsession' won't work correctly.
>There appears to be an error generated by the xprop part of the script where 
>it is having difficulties with the DISPLAY environment (somehow the last 
>digit is missing) and since it works with everything else I won't mess 
>with this. 
>
>I haven't had this problem with various PC X emulators (all awfully slow in 
>comparison with the Tek's) which always disengage gracefully.
>
>Has anyone come across this little problem (it may be due to the Tek ROM's 
>which will be updated 'real soon' but might be something else).
>
>If I start 4Dwm from a telnet session I have to kill the PS before exiting 
>otherwise the screen is alive and well but needs resetting before any more 
>logins can be made.
>
>Obviously this is not strictly to do with sgi.hardware but it is a 
>reasonable home for my question 8-)
>Thanks
>Neil

I have found a cure and a new problem - the problem is with endsession 
and the name of the Xterm containing numbers. Changing the name of the 
xterms to all letters was the quick workaround. Is there a standard 
fix for the endsession script?
Neil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.hardware
Subject: 110/220V switching on R4000 INDIGO
From: Malarkey@kcbbs.gen.nz (Ron Young)
Date: 27 Jan 93 20:26:18 GMT
Organization: Kappa Crucis Unix BBS, Auckland, New Zealand

Hi, I also am getting an Indigo from states, could you email me when 
you find the solution to this one. I am still looking for a place to 
buy from, could you give any recomendations.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.hardware
From: john@sol.cs.wmich.edu (John Kapenga)
Subject: scsi disks for a 4d/35
Keywords: external scsi disks
Organization: Western Michigan Univ. Comp. Sci. Dept.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 02:21:16 GMT


hi;

I'm about to add external large (2GB or more) scsi disk(s) to a 4D/35,
What are the disk models/manufacturers SGI offers?  I've added disks
to SUNs often before, this is my first SGI adventure.

Any suggestions on models or third party vendors.?

john
-- 
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
John A. Kapenga                   Department of Computer Science
Ma Bell:  (616)387-5657           Western Michigan University
Internet: john@cs.wmich.edu       Kalamazoo, MI 49008
From: randallr@nic.cerf.net (Randall J. Rosa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.hardware
Subject: Backup and Restore problems on 4D25 using 4.01 IRIX
Date: 22 Jan 1993 23:39:53 GMT
Organization: CERFnet Dial n' CERF Customer Group
Distribution: us
NNTP-Posting-Host: nic.cerf.net


I am having problems using the "Backup and Restore" utility from the 
System Manager menu.  Backing up the machine which has the tape device
is no problem, but using that drive for backing up other machines on
the local net gives me an "unable to open remote tape device" error.

I have set the guest account on both machines to no password and root
group and user, but still get the same results.  This used to work
under 4.00, but doesn't under 4.01.  (we're an art school, and can't
afford an update to the current 4.05?? version until a grant comes
our way....any help would be appreciated!   Thanks!
From: shankar@sgi.com (Shankar Unni)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.hardware
Subject: Re: HP ScanJet scanner
Date: 22 Jan 93 21:00:13 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: boris.wpd.sgi.com
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Loki Jorgenson (loki@nazgul.Physics.McGill.CA) wrote:

> 	I have inherited a Hewlett-Packard ScanJet II color scanner
> with SCSI interface.  It doesn't appear to respond to the available
> IRIX SCSI scanner driver.  Can anyone tell me what I need to make it
> work with IRIXv4.0.5 on a 4D/35 or 4D/RPC?

I'm told that the Scanjet II's SCSI interface is non-standard (it's
supposed to be SCSI-I), which causes most regular SCSI drivers to fail.

You may have to contact HP and get a ScanJet II driver in source form
from them. Try posting something in comp.sys.hp about this and see if
anyone there has any suggestions..
--
Shankar Unni				E-Mail:	shankar@sgi.com
Silicon Graphics Inc.			Phone:	+1-415-390-2072
From: steev@ipecac.esd.sgi.com (Motorin' Flarey Henderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.hardware
Subject: Re: Which machine can use these simms
Date: 28 Jan 93 18:19:12 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1993Jan28.000538.6282@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> chienhua@simplex.ecn.purdue.edu (Chien-Hua Hsiao) writes:


>Please help me to identify which machine can use following simms.

>+---------------------------------+
>| +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ |
>| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
>| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
>| +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ |
>||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||
>+----------------^----------------+
>       |                  |
>    32 pins            32 pins

>These simms have 8 chips on it. The code on the chip is  AAA1M300J-08
>                                                         NMBS    9130
>Are the simms 1Mx8-80NS.

They don't sound familiar to me, at least for ESD's machines.  The 4D/20
and 4D/25 use a 30 pin (100 mil spacing) simm in a 9 bit wide configuration,  
same as many PC clones.  1Mx9-100ns was the most common size.
The 4D/30, 4D/35, and Indigo R3K used a double high simm with a pinout 
that looks like the above drawing (64 pins, 50mil spacing), but with two 
rows of 9 DRAMs (18 DRAMs total), and a custom gate array on the back.  These
were 9 bits wide, two way interleave simms that came in 2M, 4M, and 8M
sizes (the 4M had 10 of the 18 DRAMS stuffed).  These were custom simms 
that were not found on any other computer.  The Indigo R4K and the
Indigo^2 use a 72 pin (50 mil spacing) 36 bit wide simm, as can be
found in certain IBM PS/2 models.

>Thanks in advance. Please e-mail me.


>Chien-Hua Hsiao
>chienhua@ecn.purdue.edu

--
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	   	  It's like deja vu all over again...
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