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by interlocutor 3390 days ago
The SGI Indy came with just 16 MB RAM, and ran the IRIX graphical environment and also had OpenGL. IRIX had excellent system administration tools.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Indy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIX

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We had Indys with 32MB of RAM in '97-98. They were basically useless- the OpenGL implementation wasn't that great, and the rest of the system was massively underprovisioned (constant slow disk IO). However, we also had a bunch of better SGIs with 64+MB of RAM and those worked great.