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To: ramin shahidi who wrote (6043)	4/16/1999 12:21:00 AM
From: Jim Davison	Respond to of 14451

Thanks Ramin --JD

To: ramin shahidi who wrote (6043)	4/16/1999 1:05:00 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 14451

Ramin, it used to be that compatibility was running ??? OH yeah flight simulator. I don't care about flight simulator. But can ya find out if it will run turbortax? :) So it seems that SGI has an NEC design. New topic... As the Green Growcer has said, It marketing, marketing and ... well ya know. Now it seems that every add I see for the SGI NT box also shows the SW1600. Now I'd guess that anyone thinking about an SGI NT box would know you can also use a standard monitor. All six people. But my guess is that the tens(hundreds I hope, I hope) of thousands who may want the very bestest of display(or displays if your truly wacky) on their humble PC have no clue that that is possible. Nine, nine on SGI marketing. SGI has very very bright people who don't know who to talk the lesser being who are the majority. New topic... What is the cash value of SGI as the 85% of mips is worth ??? over 6 or seven a share depending on close. Now the 3.6 million shares of nine aren't worth much yet, but what's the other stuff worth? Is SGI trading now at it's cash value?? Tom Watson tosiwmee PS for newbies. NEC, not entirely compatible

To: ramin shahidi who wrote (6043)	4/16/1999 10:38:00 AM
From: Alexis Cousein	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

> It crashes often, specially on any software that SGI has developed > for it. Specifics? [I'm not trying to FUD you, but to help...] Make sure you have the latest gfx driver from support.sgi.com, BTW. I don't seem to see the same things as you do over here -- with the master release bits (and some more recent beta bits as well). In fact, I have yet to see a blue screen of death ;). The fact the screen saver doesn't work is pretty suspect -- I've seen that on several of the beta bits, but not on Master Release software. You may want to reload the machine from the OS CDs (if these are indeed the MR CDs), and then apply the latest firmware, gfx etc. fixes from the support site, just to be sure that there isn't an issue with the image that got on disk. I have absolutely no problems with Netscape, nor with using 'standard' components like a Universal PCI Adaptec SCSI board with latest drivers from their web site. As far as I can see it, apart from the memory (and I also hope that third-party memory appears fast), there's nothing proprietary about peripheral stuff (it is a 3.3V only PCI bus, but that's not proprietary, though it does cause grief with older non-universal PCI cards unless you fork out on a Bit3 converter box). What software is 'not compatible with off-the-shelf software'? I'm also puzzled by your "the PCI card is an old design" comment. The machine doesn't come with any PCI card...