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The O2 is an entry-level Unix workstation introduced in 1996 by Silicon Graphics (SGI) to replace their earlier Indy series. Like the Indy, the O2 used a single MIPS-based CPU and was intended to be used primarily for multimedia. Its larger counterpart was the SGI Octane. more...
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The O2 was replaced by the Fuel series in 2002.
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System architecture
The O2 features a proprietary high-bandwidth Unified Memory Architecture (UMA) that connects the various system components. A PCI bus is bridged onto the UMA with one slot available. It has a designer case and an internal modular construction. It has space for two SCSI drives mounted on special sleds (1 in the later R10000/R12000 models due to heat constraints) and an optional video capture / sound cassette mounted on the far left side. Further information on the design and construction of the O2 can be found in the SGI service manuals. Detailed breakdown pictures and a IRIX hinv dump can be found here.
CPU
The O2 comes in two distinct CPU flavours; the low-end MIPS 180-300 MHz R5000/R7000 based units and the higher-end 150-400 MHz R10000/R12000 based units. The 200 MHz R5000 CPUs with 1 MB L2-cache are generally noticeably faster than the 180 MHz R5000s with only 512 KB cache. There is a hobbyist project that has successfully retrofitted a 600 MHz R7xxx MIPS processor into the O2.
There are 8 DIMM slots on the motherboard and memory on all O2s is expandable to 1 GB using proprietary 139-pin SDRAM DIMMs.
Disks
The O2 carries an UltraWide SCSI drive subsystem. Older O2's generally have 4x speed Toshiba CD-ROMs, but any Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM can be used. The R5000/R7000 units have two available drive sleds for SCA UltraWide SCSI hard-disks. Due to the fact that the R10000/R12000 CPU module has a much higher cooling-fan assembly, the R10000/R12000 units have room for only one drive-sled. Networking is provided through an integrated 10/100 Base-T ethernet port.
Graphics
The CRM chipset that SGI developed for the O2, shares OpenGL calculations between CPU and chip. Due to the unified memory architecture, framebuffer memory comes from main memory, and there is effectively an 'unlimited' amount of texture memory.;
ICE accelerator;
OpenGL 1.1 + ARB image extensions.;
OS
IRIX 6.3 or 6.5.x (native platform);
Linux port is working, but some drivers are missing. Both Gentoo and Debian have releases that work on the O2. See the IP32 port page on linux-mips.org.;
OpenBSD has supported the O2 since OpenBSD 3.7. See the sgi port page.;
NetBSD has supported the O2 since NetBSD 2.0. See the sgimips port page.;
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