>----Original Message-----
>From: jim breeyear [mailto:jbreeyea_at_zoo.uvm.edu]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 5:29 PM
>To: nmr
>Subject: monitor
>
>Hi,
>Does anyone know of a direct replacement for a SGI GDM-17E21 color
>monitor.. I would like to replace it with something other than SGI.
>I wonder how long they will be in business.
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Hi all,
Just in case Bruker/SGI users missed this announcement I thought I'd
pass it on...
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Bruker NMR Software News No.21 / February 2002
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Important note regarding the purchase of new computer systems for NMR
spectrometers.
We have decided to freeze our commitment towards SGI computers. We will
not support the O2+ computer system, neither as a computer driving an
NMR spectrometer, nor as a standalone workstation. We strongly recommend
that customers choose either a Windows 2000 or Linux (Red Hat 7.1) based
PC computer for all future spectrometer or workstation acquirements
intended to drive the Bruker NMR-Suite software package. Only in special
cases we will recommend buying an O2, but not an O2+, computer.
There are two good reasons for this decision. One is that the O2+ has a
problem that can lead to a complete halt of the computer system. (The O2
computer system has been discontinued by SGI.) The other is that future
software developments of the NMR-Suite will not be based on the IRIX
operating system. In order to allow everybody to benefit from these
future developments, we strongly recommend using the PC platform for
newly acquired computers.
The hardware configuration for PC's driving the NMR spectrometer has
undergone a thorough Bruker on-site test for long-term stability and
optimum performance. The software on these computers is factory
installed and tested. Therefore, we can only guarantee full spectrometer
functionality with such a Bruker supplied computer system.
On the other hand, workstations that are used for offline processing
only can be more freely chosen as they are not an integral part of the
spectrometer. Nevertheless, such systems require a certain minimum
hardware and software configuration, especially with respect to the
graphics card and the supported operating systems.
For all questions regarding the hardware and software configuration of
the PC's, please contact your local Bruker representative.
Of course, we will continue our software maintenance for all thus far
delivered SGI based spectrometers and workstations at their present
feature level.
Received on Wed Feb 27 2002 - 17:43:00 MST