Running O2
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As my Silicon  Graphics IRIS Indigo [1] have had  power supply issues I
have had to return to my SGI O2 [2]. There is still the RAM issue to be
solved (at the  moment I had only  some 256 MB of RAM  available; I had
1024 MB before the failure) so some things are somewhat constrained for
now. Especially  the Links web browser  uses too much RAM  if WWW pages
have images. And the Firefox uses too much RAM all the time.

But there are many  things to do which do not require  much RAM. I have
been transferring  some files  from (and  to) my  PSION [3]  MC600. The
MC600 is  a MS-DOS  machine (it  has the MS-DOS  3.3 hard-wired  in its
flash memory) so I can use the  Kermit here [4]. The MSKermit on the MC
and the C-Kermit on the O2. Both are pretty old binaries but both still
work as expected.  Actually I wrote some texts on  my "new" MC400 (with
its PSION-only operating system  and applications) and transferred them
to the MC600 on a PSION SSD disk (there is no Kermit for that device).

I have checked what I have on  the MC600 and have sent some binaries to
it (I  plan to  play with  the Atari Portfolio  so I  need to  have the
"ft.exe" transfer  utility here).  I also add  some files  I previously
deleted by  accident (the  LZEXE [5]  executable files  compressor, for
example).

I also have updated  my data files on the O2 and then  on the MC600 (my
bicycle log, some BASIC and OPL programs and so on).

I also have been using an on-line  radio player on the O2. The XMMS can
still be  used this  way (though  the number  of accessible  streams is
shrinking). I usually  listen the ORF Radio Wien or  the AnonRadio [6].
The  DeadBeeF cannot  be compiled  on the  IRIX (and  there is  no good
reason  to run  it here  anyway -  the IRIX  does not  like modern  nor
semi-modern Gtk+ stuff).

It seems that so  far I have not ran any GUI  program except the Links,
the  Firefox  and the  XMMS...  I  should  run  some more  complex  GUI
applications because it is the Silicon Graphics after all...


References:

[1] gopher://gopherpedia.com/0/SGI%20Indigo
[2] gopher://gopherpedia.com/0/SGI%20O2
[3] gopher://gopherpedia.com/0/Psion%20%28company%29
[4] gopher://gopherpedia.com/0/Kermit%20%28protocol%29
[5] gopher://gopherpedia.com/0/Fabrice%20Bellard
[6] https://anonradio.net/