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In 1997 Irix was still vastly better than Linux on the development front. Mips Pro C++ compilers could actually handle the STL and had useful error messages. Ir
by spitfire 11y ago
In 1997 Irix was still vastly better than Linux on the development front. Mips Pro C++ compilers could actually handle the STL and had useful error messages. Irix came with debuggers that you could use. If you were doing perl however there was no benefit.
Things changed very rapidly though. By 1999 Irix was languishing badly.
- rwmj 11y agoAll the machines in the picture were running FreeBSD which was our development platform. We were doing kernel & networking development work and BSD was much better documented because of the second Stevens book. Userspace was a lot of crappy C++ code using the bits of the STL which worked across gcc / whatever Sun's compiler was called / Windows VC++ (which was not a large intersection at that time).