MIPS Magnum - Revision history

Jnc: Say what it is

2024-02-27T11:16:22Z

Say what it is

Larsbrinkhoff: /* Video */ Link to frame buffer.

2024-02-27T06:49:49Z

‎Video: Link to frame buffer.

Jnc: Better cat

2023-12-21T21:54:27Z

Better cat

Tor: Linkify MIPS R4000

2016-02-09T14:23:43Z

Linkify MIPS R4000

Tor: hz-Hz, and some minor textual improvements

2013-03-09T13:50:34Z

hz-Hz, and some minor textual improvements

Tor: Spellfix

2013-02-13T13:57:25Z

Spellfix

Tor: Minor typos

2010-06-29T15:29:11Z

Minor typos

Neozeed: /* Emulation */

2009-08-26T15:05:04Z

‎Emulation

Neozeed: this looks way better.

2009-08-11T13:37:54Z

this looks way better.

Neozeed: New page: The MIPS magnum is largely based on the inhouse Microsoft JAZZ boards that Microsoft used to develop Windows NT. They used an EISA bus, MIPS R4000 cpu's and had a simple frame buffer,...

2009-08-11T13:30:04Z

New page: The MIPS magnum is largely based on the inhouse Microsoft JAZZ boards that Microsoft used to develop Windows NT. They used an EISA bus, MIPS R4000 cpu's and had a simple frame buffer,...

New page

The MIPS magnum is largely based on the inhouse Microsoft JAZZ boards that Microsoft used to develop [[Windows NT]].

They used an EISA bus, MIPS R4000 cpu's and had a simple frame buffer, and were equiped with a NCR 53C9X scsi bus.

The MIPS cpu boots up in little endian mode, and then depending on the firmware will either continue booting (ARC), or would reset into big endian mode. Most of the UNIX ports used the big endian mode. The Magnum, and all RISC workstations that were supported by Windows NT all needed a FAT system partition, in which the boot loader was stored.

== Operating Systems ==

The Magnum could run these OS's out of the factory
*[[Windows NT]]
*[[RiscOS]]

Additionally there have been ports of NetBSD,OpenBSD & Linux to the Magnum.

== Emulation ==

Qemu can emulate a magnum, it can even run the ARC firmware. There is a custom build out there that can even run Windows NT. See [[Installing Windows NT 4.0 on Qemu(MIPS)]] for more details.

[[Category:Computers]]

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-The '''MIPS magnum''' is largely based on the inhouse Microsoft JAZZ boards that [[Microsoft]] used to develop [[Windows NT]].
+The '''MIPS Magnum''' is a [[workstation]] that was largely based on the inhouse Microsoft JAZZ boards that [[Microsoft]] used to develop [[Windows NT]].
 == Hardware ==
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 === Processor ===
-The Magnum used a [[MIPS R4000]] CPU, with 16KB of primary cache, and a clock speed of 50MHz, which the CPU internally doubled to 100MHz.
+The Magnum used a [[MIPS R4000]] CPU, with 16KB of primary [[cache]], and a clock speed of 50MHz, which the CPU internally doubled to 100MHz.
 The Maximum amount of memory was 256MB.
-The Magnum also had an EISA bus for expansion.
+The Magnum also had an [[Extended Industry Standard Architecture|EISA]] bus for expansion.
 === SCSI ===
-They were equipped with a NCR 53C94 fast/narrow scsi chipset.
+They were equipped with a NCR 53C94 fast/narrow [[Small Computer System Interface|SCSI]] [[chipset]].
 === Ethernet ===
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 === Video ===
-The Magnum had a simple [[frame buffer]] called the G364.  It was a fixed resolution display that was configured thru the ARC.  All bitdepths were 256 colours, in the following resolutions.
+The Magnum had a simple [[frame buffer]] called the G364.  It was a fixed [[resolution]] [[display]] that was configured thru the ARC.  All bit depths were 256 colours, in the following resolutions.
 *640x480
 *800x600
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 === Serial / Parallel ===
-The Magnum had 2 RS-232 serial ports, along with an IBM compatible parallel port.
+The Magnum had 2 RS-232 [[asynchronous serial line|serial]] ports, along with an IBM compatible [[parallel interface|parallel port]].
 === ARC ===
-The MIPS CPU boots up in little endian mode, and then depending on the firmware will either continue booting (ARC), or would reset into big endian mode.  Most of the UNIX ports used the big endian mode.  The Magnum, and all RISC workstations that were supported by Windows NT all needed a FAT system partition, in which the boot loader was stored.
+The MIPS CPU [[bootstrap|boots]] up in [[little-endian]] mode, and then depending on the [[firmware]] will either continue booting (ARC), or would reset into [[big-endian]] mode.  Most of the UNIX ports used the big endian mode.  The Magnum, and all RISC workstations that were supported by Windows NT all needed a [[FAT file system]] [[partition]], in which the bootstrap loader was stored.
 == Operating Systems ==
-The Magnum could run these operating systems out of the factory:
+The Magnum could run these [[operating system]]s out of the factory:
-*[[Windows NT]]
 *[[RiscOS]]
-Additionally there have been ports of NetBSD, OpenBSD & Linux to the Magnum.
+Additionally there have been ports of [[NetBSD]], [[OpenBSD]] & [[Linux]] to the Magnum.
 == Emulation ==

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 === Video ===
-The Magnum had a simple frame buffer called the G364.  It was a fixed resolution display that was configured thru the ARC.  All bitdepths were 256 colours, in the following resolutions.
+The Magnum had a simple [[frame buffer]] called the G364.  It was a fixed resolution display that was configured thru the ARC.  All bitdepths were 256 colours, in the following resolutions.
 *640x480
 *800x600

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-The MIPS magnum is largely based on the inhouse Microsoft JAZZ boards that Microsoft used to develop [[Windows NT]].
+The '''MIPS magnum''' is largely based on the inhouse Microsoft JAZZ boards that [[Microsoft]] used to develop [[Windows NT]].
 == Hardware ==
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 [[Qemu]] can emulate a Magnum, it can even run the ARC firmware.  There is a custom build out there that can even run Windows NT.  See [[Installing Windows NT 4.0 on Qemu(MIPS)]] for more details.
-[[Category:Computers]]
+[[Category: Workstations]]

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 === Processor ===
-The Magnum used a MIPS R4000 CPU, with 16KB of primary cache, and a clock speed of 50MHz, which the CPU internally doubled to 100MHz.
+The Magnum used a [[MIPS R4000]] CPU, with 16KB of primary cache, and a clock speed of 50MHz, which the CPU internally doubled to 100MHz.
 The Maximum amount of memory was 256MB.
 The Magnum also had an EISA bus for expansion.

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 === Processor ===
-The Magnum used a MIPS R4000 cpu, with 16KB of primary cache, and a clock speed of 50MHz, which the cpu internally doubled to 100Mhz.
+The Magnum used a MIPS R4000 CPU, with 16KB of primary cache, and a clock speed of 50MHz, which the CPU internally doubled to 100MHz.
 The Maximum amount of memory was 256MB.
 The Magnum also had an EISA bus for expansion.
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 === ARC ===
-The MIPS cpu boots up in little endian mode, and then depending on the firmware will either continue booting (ARC), or would reset into big endian mode.  Most of the UNIX ports used the big endian mode.  The Magnum, and all RISC workstations that were supported by Windows NT all needed a FAT system partition, in which the boot loader was stored.
+The MIPS CPU boots up in little endian mode, and then depending on the firmware will either continue booting (ARC), or would reset into big endian mode.  Most of the UNIX ports used the big endian mode.  The Magnum, and all RISC workstations that were supported by Windows NT all needed a FAT system partition, in which the boot loader was stored.
 == Operating Systems ==
-The Magnum could run these OS's out of the factory
+The Magnum could run these operating systems out of the factory:
 *[[Windows NT]]
 *[[RiscOS]]
-Additionally there have been ports of NetBSD,OpenBSD & Linux to the Magnum.
+Additionally there have been ports of NetBSD, OpenBSD & Linux to the Magnum.
 == Emulation ==

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 == Emulation ==
-Qemu can emulate a magnum, it can even run the ARC firmware.  There is a custom build out there that can even run Windows NT.  See [[Installing Windows NT 4.0 on Qemu(MIPS)]] for more details.
+[[Qemu]] can emulate a magnum, it can even run the ARC firmware.  There is a custom build out there that can even run Windows NT.  See [[Installing Windows NT 4.0 on Qemu(MIPS)]] for more details.
 [[Category:Computers]]