Although 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 o

Although 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.