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rather than go through the headaches of installing irix 6.5 in an emulator, allow me to demonstrate the actual headaches of irix 6 on indy with this exciting te
by a-dub 5y ago
rather than go through the headaches of installing irix 6.5 in an emulator, allow me to demonstrate the actual headaches of irix 6 on indy with this exciting textual simulation: (messages are recreated from memory, and may not be perfectly accurate, imagine logging in for the first time after a fresh installation)
indy% ls<enter>
objectserver exited with signal 11 (core dumped)
...
...
<enter>
... (20s)
...
<CTRL-C>
...
<enter>
...
... (30s)
<enter> ... <enter> ... <power off> ... <power on>
bum buh dum dum, tsh!
...in truth though, the indy was one of my favorite workstations (possibly edging out the next). i was lucky enough to first encounter an indy when i was an intern in the 90s. later after i was hired full-time i had an indy on my desk. software i worked on shipped to all indy and challenge owners on physical CDs as part of sgi's webforce suite! :)