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Strange, my Octane, O2, and Indigo2 don’t really feel limited by running the operating system that was developed specifically for them.
by eschaton 6y ago
Strange, my Octane, O2, and Indigo2 don’t really feel limited by running the operating system that was developed specifically for them.
- marcodiego 6y agoIt was soon impossible to install software except by those "that was developed specifically for them". Even compiling new qt versions, which made the Fuel become very hot, was troublesome to build more modern software.
- speed_spread 6y agoAlthough not too bad a Unix, IRIX was pretty much a closed environment. Support from most open source libraries and apps was poor. I remember running Netscape on my Indy and... that was it. It was a pay-to-play environment, never intended to be put in the hands of enthusiasts. Even the C compiler was extra you had to pay for. By comparison, Sun workstations were _way_ more open than SGI's.