About Taygeta 
  
                              About Taygeta 

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    The Pleiades
The name taygeta is from the name of one of the stars in the Pleiades cluster in the constellation Taurus. It is a magnitude 4.29 class B6 star, it is also known as 19 Tauri. It is the first bright star you come to if you follow the arrow down in the figure above.

Taygeta 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.

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, 

     
      Available MIPS binaries built on taygeta

   Everett (Skip) Carter              Phone:  408-656-3318 FAX: 408-656-2712

   Naval Postgraduate School          INTERNET: skip@taygeta.oc.nps.navy.mil
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