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SiliconGraphics Onyx Teardown

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The bowels of the computer are now revealed to us!

The card cage is 9U VME size, which means that each board is about 14 inches square.

Memory Board (MC3, 32x64MB (2GB)

Processor Board (IP25, 4x MIPS R10000 @195Mhz)

I/O Board (SGI IO4)

Geometry Engine (4x GE12 SGI-proprietary ASICs)

Raster Manager (20x "quad core" image engines- 80 total, 16MB)

Display Generator (Two Graphic terminal DACs and video I/O

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