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    From Rich Alderson@21:1/5 to Single Stage to Orbit on Mon Nov 27 15:35:36 2023
    Single Stage to Orbit <alex.buell@munted.eu> writes:

    BTW, I found out recently, that they used the Super Foonly F1 (a
    supercharged PDP-10 no less) to render the CGI for the film TRON!

    Supercharged with respect to a 1967 PDP-10 (KA-10 CPU) or 1971 DECsystem-10 (KI-10 CPU). The F1 is approximately the same processing power as a 1974 KL-10 CPU (DECsystem-1080, DECSYSTEM-2040).

    The Systems Concepts SC-40 was the only truly supercharged PDP-10, with a floating point accelerator that gave roughly 10x performance for FP operations. For everything else, the SC boxes and the XKL Toad-1 and TOAD-2 systems provide 2x to 2.5x processing power over the KL-10.

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  • From John Dallman@21:1/5 to Single Stage to Orbit on Mon Nov 27 21:53:00 2023
    In article <48f8aaf26a437bba0ea0a35b9745449b387f646d.camel@munted.eu>, alex.buell@munted.eu (Single Stage to Orbit) wrote:

    For anything commercial, sure. The motives of enthusiasts can be
    somewhat different. It's possible they're nostalgic for the SGI
    Altix 350 or 450 systems, which just might imply they managed to get
    them to do something useful. If so, that's a feat worth remembering.
    I've always wanted to have a play with IRiX but there aren't any
    good SGI emulators out there.

    <https://ozgurkazancci.com/irix-6-5-22-emulation/>

    Of course, the Altix systems were Linux on Itanium: Irix only ever ran on
    MIPS.

    John

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  • From Single Stage to Orbit@21:1/5 to Rich Alderson on Mon Nov 27 23:09:37 2023
    On Mon, 2023-11-27 at 15:35 -0500, Rich Alderson wrote:
    BTW, I found out recently, that they used the Super Foonly F1 (a supercharged PDP-10 no less) to render the CGI for the film TRON!

    Supercharged with respect to a 1967 PDP-10 (KA-10 CPU) or 1971
    DECsystem-10 (KI-10 CPU).  The F1 is approximately the same
    processing power as a 1974 KL-10 CPU (DECsystem-1080, DECSYSTEM-
    2040).

    The Systems Concepts SC-40 was the only truly supercharged PDP-10,
    with a floating point accelerator that gave roughly 10x performance
    for FP operations. For everything else, the SC boxes and the XKL
    Toad-1 and TOAD-2 systems provide 2x to 2.5x processing power over
    the KL-10.

    And all that would be left in the dust by a tiny little RP2040. For £5
    UKP.
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  • From Single Stage to Orbit@21:1/5 to John Dallman on Mon Nov 27 23:10:29 2023
    On Mon, 2023-11-27 at 21:53 +0000, John Dallman wrote:
    I've always wanted to have a play with IRiX but there aren't any
    good SGI emulators out there.

    <https://ozgurkazancci.com/irix-6-5-22-emulation/>

    Of course, the Altix systems were Linux on Itanium: Irix only ever
    ran on MIPS.

    It's MAME based and I know of it, thanks.
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