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You can emulate a machine with Qemu and run Irix there to enjoy the GUI. The killer apps on the platform were the various proprietary high en graphical and 3D
by unixhero 5y ago
You can emulate a machine with Qemu and run Irix there to enjoy the GUI.
The killer apps on the platform were the various proprietary high en graphical and 3D suites. These are much better on modern computers now anyways.
- AlbertoGP 5y agoFrom reading about it, I was under the impression that the emulation was painfully slow, so I did not even try it. Is it possible to get close to a real machine under emulation with a current computer?
- unixhero 5y agoReal experience for what workloads? Clicking around in the colourful purple GUI and typing commands in the terminal? Yes. Running Hollywood-level graphical software, perhaps no. But I never tried.
- mst 5y agoMy favourite thing about my Indigo2 (bought second hand for relatively cheap in the early '00s) was that unlike all the x86 kit I had running, it survived power brownouts with a line logged to console mentioning it had happened. When the area I was living at the time was having periodic power issues I'd check the console any time I got home, and if there was a new log message I knew I'd need to bring all the x86 kit back up once I'd had a coffee or three.