We are located in the New Engineering Building on the second floor along with the other CS&E research labs, in room 217. Stop by for some tea or coffee, but remember to bring your mug!
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| Left: JC working on SPARC LX. Right: Tripp and Himanshu taking a break, playing hacky-sack. | |
We have six Unix machines: three SGI O2s (two r10k/150MHz, one r5k/200MHz) and an Iris Indigo running IRIX, a Sun SPARC 10 and a Sun SPARCclassic LX running Solaris 2, and a Sun 3/60 converted to an X-terminal. Two PCs (a Pentium 120 and a 386/25) and a Macintosh are also available in the lab.
There are some problems with IRIX and Solaris. If you know how to solve any these, send me email:
IRIX's 'lp' command apparently won't print a file unless every directory leading up to that file has alteast the execute bit set for the world!
IRIX 6.3: Where are "dos2unix" and other text utilities (nroff etc.)???
Solution: Thanks to Neil Salter for pointing out that the SGI equivalents are called to_unix and to_dos. For nroff the Documenter's Workbench must be purchased; install groff from the Freeware 2.0 CD instead.
XDM sessions sessions started from PCs don't seem to be able to save the desktop configs...haven't looked into this in detail...must be a switch somewhere
OpenWindows (XView) apps use a large ugly font...must use xset to remove the 100dpi fonts from fontpath!
Solution: Since I only use a few tools such as textedit, mailtool, dtmail and dtcm, I can specify options/resources for these tools, providing a partial solution. Send me email for details.
Make SGI F-keys emulate Sun L-keys for the handy Open/Close/Front/Back/Find functions.
Common $HOME/.netscape between Sun/SGI causes the new version license requester to come up every time I switch between Sun/SGI!
SGI's PEX implementation (of NURBS?) seems to be slower than Sun's, even though OpenGL isn't. Also, starting a PEX application will bring a machine to it's knees. Apparently a 2nd Xsgi process is spawned which consumes a lot memory and CPU.
You can reach the lab at (813) 974-1343.
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