Elan is a class of graphics chips in a given (early) SGI. It's the top level of the Express set. http://archive.irixnet.org/sgistuff/hardware/graphics/express.html <http://archive.irixnet.org/sgistuff/hardware/graphics/express.html>
I thought the end of SGI hinged on two things: banking on the Itanium and giving up on MIPS, and their Graphics experts went off to found a company called Nvidia... the rest was inevitable. For anyone that still uses a SGI and has a later IRIX installed I've worked with a team that has ported a whole slew of modern software over to IRIX to make them fairly useable today. Later systems mostly - but quite a few people love their Indys and are running what we built: SGUG-RSE (Silicon Graphics User Group's RPM Software Env). How to setup RSE: https://forums.sgi.sh/index.php?threads/setup-the-official-sgug-repo-upgrade-openssh.660/ <https://forums.sgi.sh/index.php?threads/setup-the-official-sgug-repo-upgrade-openssh.660/> RSE sources: https://github.com/sgidevnet/sgug-rse <https://github.com/sgidevnet/sgug-rse> It's fun if you are into SGI and want to run some stuff that is slightly relevant. > On Dec 24, 2022, at 12:02 PM, Chris via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > Don"t know what an Elan is. I do seem to recall suddenly an Indy with no > graphics output, intended to be used as a headless server. > >> Anyone using an I2 or Indy with regularity? I have a purple box somewhere. I >> foumd the teal boxes much more visually appealing. I use my Fuel and my teal Indigo2 pretty regularly- there is a of course a group of people who do CGI work on these old systems for the authentic feels and I dabble in that and IRIX sysadmin- it's a refreshing change from Linux and systemd lol. -andy
