Origin

General

Origin is Silicon Graphics, Inc's brand name for their MIPS-based series of high-end servers implementing a [1] architecture. The following models exist:

• Origin 200
• Origin 2000
• Origin 300
• Origin 3000

Several similar model numbers exist but the difference is mostly to help sales droids. Origins are headless systems; when equiped with graphics they're selling under the Onyx product name however the basic system architecture stays unchanged.

• Onyx 2 is the name of the headful Origin 2000
• Onyx 3000 is the product name of the headful Origin 3000

External Links

• http://www.sgi.com/ Homepage of Silicon Graphics, Inc.
• http://techpubs.sgi.com/ SGI's site full of technical documentation
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics Wikipedia article about Silicon Graphics