> It means they managed to get irix running in qemu. Presumably on an x86 cpu. Not quite. It means that they got qemu to emulate IRIX's syscall layer on linux

> It means they managed to get irix running in qemu. Presumably on an x86 cpu. Not quite. It means that they got qemu to emulate IRIX's syscall layer on linux. So you can run, lets say, a MIPS IRIX binary on x86 linux without having to emulate the entire machine.