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The SGI Visual Workstation 320 is an x86 workstation manufactured by SGI and designed to run Windows NT and GNU/Linux. The Visual Workstations are notable for their use of the Intel Pentium II and Intel Pentium III processors (rather than the 64-bit MIPS RISC architecture usually used in SGI computer products), but are fundamentally ARCS firmware systems regardless of their ISA used.

Hardware

The 320 is capable of taking 2 Slot-1 Pentium II or III CPUs with up to 1GB of system memory, shared between the GPU and CPU. Otherwise, it can take 3 3.3V PCI expansion cards. Architecturally, the COBALT graphics processor is related to the MIPS-powered O2 system.

Operating System Support

It was designed to run Windows NT 4.0 and 2000 as well as several GNU/Linux distributions.

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	The '''SGI Visual Workstation 320''' is an x86 workstation manufactured by SGI and designed to run Windows NT and GNU/Linux. The Visual Workstations are notable for their use of the Intel Pentium II and Intel Pentium III processors (rather than the 64-bit MIPS RISC architecture usually used in SGI computer products), but are fundamentally ARCS firmware systems regardless of their ISA used.		The '''SGI Visual Workstation 320''' is an x86 workstation manufactured by SGI and designed to run Windows NT and GNU/Linux. The Visual Workstations are notable for their use of the Intel Pentium II and Intel Pentium III processors (rather than the 64-bit MIPS RISC architecture usually used in SGI computer products), but are fundamentally ARCS firmware systems regardless of their ISA used.