zepher

Hello to you all ….Here go me …!…Iv recently got my self a 0 2..whoo hoo !.cheep ..of course..from ebay….and have found that my Houdini apprentice wont run on Irix 6.3 or watevr it is …it needs 6.5..apparntly…Doh!…
Last time I wrote here ,someone told me the right version of Irix to get..
and I am lookin….should have it pretty soon..think it waz ver 19…My next question to any of you ..is ….Can I also get Softwindows for this Irix 6.5 .19 rig and run stuff like Premier…and 3D max on my 02….would be cool …why did,t I just buy a souped up PC you may ask ..Well..Listen Iv drooled over these machines for years and Im gonna run one if it kills me …Please help…any info on all this malarcky..would be appreicated..

Read above post…..Ahhhhhhh.DOH!

Ahhhhh.!@#!!!..Nightmare….Have managed to aquire a pretty nice working 02 machine
running Irix 6.3….Also side effects have just posted me a copy of apprentice 5.5…whoo hoo ready to install….Houdini tells me at install that
it needs irix 6.5, and that it is not installed correct ..!…So I mail a guy at
SGI IRIX Home …and he rings me this morning telling me I need to spend $600 to upgrade to 6.5…it comes on 10 disks apparnetly….surley
there is somthing on line somewhere I can upgrade my Irix…..Please help
……wat can I do …..can I get it to run under 6.3……there must be a fix ..
Oh yeh…and im new to Irix…iv sussed it out as far as the GUI but man I know there is so much more to this little puppy..PLEASE..HELP!@#!…..