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In 2007, I'm amazed that someone still kept an IRIX box up somewhere. I remember my uni having one around 2001, and it was regarded as positively ancient.
by bartvk 5y ago
In 2007, I'm amazed that someone still kept an IRIX box up somewhere. I remember my uni having one around 2001, and it was regarded as positively ancient.
- eb0la 5y agoI've got a SGI Indigo in my mother's house. Before the pandemic still booted. Of course I forgot the root password, but the 4GB scsi disk is still alive. Of course the clock is somewhere in 199[2-5] because my Irix version wont' let me log in after January 1, 2000.
- leetrout 5y agoYou can get the latest release of IRIX online if you’re feeling up to the task and have a CD burner. https://archive.org/details/IRIX6530 https://archive.org/details/IRIX6530
- bdavis__ 5y agoirix 6.5 was exceptional. excellent real time performance. compilers relatively solid, and great graphics on the high end. had to have a license for the C compiler. peak proprietary unix.
- indigodaddy 5y agoAnd you can also run BZFlag on it right?
- don-code 5y agoIt was maintained by the fine folks at https://theworld.com/ https://theworld.com/ up until a few years ago, though I can't speak as to why.