SGI 320/540
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Silicon Graphics 320/540 Visual Workstation are two PC models produced by SGI which are not IBM-compatible PCs. They are known for using custom ARC firmware with a graphical interface which is available before the actual OS is booted.
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Status
ReactOS is not ported to ARC-based SGI Visual Workstation series yet.
Both 320 and 540 use Pentium compatible CPUs so they could run ReactOS once it's ported.
Hardware
SGI 320/540 use a proprietary video adapter based on Cobalt chipset. Also it has a firmware that is completely different from a Standard PC BIOS, so a new HAL should be created. Otherwise its hardware is similar to IBM PC, such as PCI bus.
In Windows 2000 there is one known HAL for this platform:
| File Name | HAL Name |
|---|---|
| halborg.dll | SGI HAL |
Emulation
There are no known emulators of this platform.
See Also
- Windows 2000 booting on SGI 320
- Installing Linux on an SGI Visual Workstation
- Linux for SGI Visual Workstations
- Linux on SGI Intel IA-32 Systems (archived)
- Official Linux support for SGI Visual Workstation platform was dropped in 2014 (commit)
- Advanced RISC Computing (ARC) Specification for the Advanced Computing Environment (ACE)
| ReactOS ports | |
|---|---|
| In active development | Intel IA-32 (x86) | AMD64 (x64) |
| In slow development | ARM64 (aarch64) | ARM32 (armv7) | NEC PC-98 (x86) | OG Xbox (x86) | Apple TV (1st generation) (x86) |
| Unmaintained | OLPC (x86) |
| Missing ports that Windows has | Intel IA-64 (Itanium) | IBM PS/2 MCA (x86) | SGI 320/540 (x86) | DEC Alpha (axp) | MIPS | PowerPC (ppc) |
| Ideas for new ports | FM Towns (x86) | PlayStation 4 (x64) | Intel SFI (x86) |
