Taygeta was the original workstation here at Taygeta Scientific. It is a MIPS 3230 "Magnum" workstation. It is a RISC workstation built on the R3000A processor chip. It is running the RISCOS V4.52 version of the Unix operating system. This was the mid-range workstation that was being made by MIPS Computer Systems Inc (now MIPS Technologies, Inc.) when they merged with Silicon Graphics. The MIPS line of workstations is no longer made; the nearest living relative to the Magnum is the Silicon Graphics Indigo. The system is now being used as a portability testbed and to provide live backups for other Taygeta machines.
Because the MIPS line is no longer being built, I have often had
to port software to this system. Many times, but not always, this
involves taking the build configuration for the Indigo and trying
to build it on taygeta. The list below includes some of these
binaries which I am making available "as is",
If you know of other sites which are providing software for these nice old
machines, let me know and I will point to them.
Available MIPS binaries built on taygeta
AMD automounter
(source, docs, and MIPS binaries).
Elm Mail reader V2.4 PL25 with PGP support (sources and binaries)
fvwm V2.0.42
window manager (needs libXpm).
Wil Baden's ThisForth.
Dirk Zoller's
PFE V0.9.14, the Portable Forth Environment.
GCC 2.7.2
htadm.
httpd V3.0pre6 (CERN).
himage (18Jan94 version).
Color ls
from GNU fileutils-4.0
cfingerd V1.3.2
(a finger daemon replacement).
in.pop3d
A POP3 server (add a directory /usr/tmp/.pop in order for this to work).
libXpm V4.7
lsof V4.22
GNU make V3.75
NCSA Mosaic
nslookup (ported
from bind-8.1.1 sources)
Perl
perl5.004b (sources tweaked for MIPS, config files, Makefiles and binaries, 4MB).
Notes on compiling PGP V2.6.2.
PVM V3.3.10
sendmail V8.9.0
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