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Date:      Fri, 21 Aug 1998 20:41:10 -0500
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Off-topic: IRIX 5.3 
Message-ID:  <199808220141.UAA16416@nospam.hiwaay.net>
In-Reply-To: Message from Bill Paul <wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG>  of "Fri, 21 Aug 1998 11:55:04 PDT." <199808211855.LAA16044@hub.freebsd.org> 

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Bill Paul writes:
> 
> IRIX 6.3 is a platform specific release much like IRIX 6.2, except
> designed to support only the O2 workstation machines, which came out
> after IRIX 6.2 was released. It also includes new desktop tools. IRIX 6.2
> runs _only_ on the O2.

'tisk, 'tisk. You had it right earlier, 6.3 runs only on the O2, and 
until 6.5 came out (mine arrived this week) 6.3 was the only version 
that ran on the O2.

> IRIX 6.3 With R10000 is yet another platform specific release for
> O2 workstations with R10000 processors.

Yup. Forgot they differentiated "6.3" and "6.3 for R10000". The R10000 
version installs correctly on R5000's too.

--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net
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