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That sounds right. I believe most or all developers at the place I worked had either 32 or 64 MB in their machines. At first (~1995) most were probably using IR
by usefulcat 5y ago
That sounds right. I believe most or all developers at the place I worked had either 32 or 64 MB in their machines. At first (~1995) most were probably using IRIX 5.3, but by 96 or 97 I think most if not all had moved to 6.5.
Whatever I had, I don't recall lack of memory ever being a problem. And the GUI was quite snappy.
- jacquesm 5y agoThe GUI was fantastic. Minimal got out of your way as much as possible and used the hardware acceleration to great effect. IRIX 6.5 was rock solid, I used it as my main driver for years before switching to Linux, we also had some windows boxes floating around because we supported a windows binary but that and admin were the only things done on those, everything was either SGI or Linux. I was still using my SGI keyboard two years ago but it finally died.