Multiheaded 4d? (I need more than one console)

[Jim Barton]

In article <CHRIS.91Mar28100718 at endgame.gsfc.nasa.gov>, chris at endgame.gsfc.nasa.gov (Chris Shenton) writes:
|> From: chris at endgame.gsfc.nasa.gov (Chris Shenton)
|> Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
|> Subject: Multiheaded 4d? (I need more than one console)
|> Message-ID: <CHRIS.91Mar28100718 at endgame.gsfc.nasa.gov>
|> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 91 07:07:18 PDT
|> Organization: none
|> 
|> I'm being moved onto a 4d 386gvx, which is nice, except that 3 other people
|> use it, and we all need graphics.
|> 
|> Someone mentioned that I could buy an additional graphics board set from
|> SGI, plug them into the backplane, and hook them up to a new display and
|> keyboard, to get an additional real console.  Any thoughts on doing this,
|> or how much it would cost? Would it be better to get a Person Iris instead?
|> 
|> Thanks.
|> --
|> chris at asylum.gsfc.nasa.gov		...!uunet!asylum.gsfc.nasa.gov!chris

Whomever said that was unfortunately wrong. One graphics user per VGX. Of
course, you could buy a couple of X terminals, but I suspect that there
might be some significant fights over use of the graphics console.

The easiest solution is to buy a Peronsal IRIS for everyone, hook 'em all
up on the network, and just use the VGX when you 'feel the need for speed'.

-- Jim Barton
   Silicon Graphics Computer Systems
   jmb at sgi.com