SGI, demos and such
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I have started  something that I call "no-POWER challenge".  That is, I
am have been trying  not to turn on my main home  computer at all. It's
the OpenPOWER machine thus "no-POWER" is  what I am have been trying to
accomplish.

It mean  that I am  using my SGI  workstation (with its  onece powerful
250MHz MIPS R1000 CPU) and - if  necessary - the Ubuntu Touch tablet. I
might run  my laptop at  some moments  but it's an  80186-based machine
(@4.7MHz as I do not run it  in the high-speed mode @8MHz) so it should
be OK.

Yesterday I worked on the SGI O2. I  made a bunch of stuff for exams of
my students:  I used the  XFig to make  pictures, the LaTeX  to compile
document and some of my computational codes, too.

Today I  arrived at  home too  tired to continue  working. Thus  I have
decided to  try some entertainment. Thus  I have been browsing  The Fit
[1] and have  been downloading and running the demos.  There are a buch
of SGI versions f these demos  but much more exotic platofrms (lige the
DOS, the GP2X and even the Maemo - among others, of course).

In other  news, I noticed that  Nathaniel is making a  pure Bash Gopher
client [2]  [3] (the sed, curl  etc are of course  necessary). A simple
one but  it's amazing to  see how litle  lines are necessary  for basic
work with the Gopher!

The client is a work of progress but basically it works for me well. It
of course requires somewhat recent versions of the bash and other tools
so on  the SGI it  works just partially (on  the SDF if  worked reather
nicely).


References:

[1] http://www.kameli.net/fit/
[2] gopher://1436.ninja/0/Phlog/20220517.post
[3] https://gitlab.com/leveck/bashgopher


Written in Vim on the SGI O2.