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>it 'just worked', reliabily, month after month. IRIX users would beg to differ. Towards the end of SGI's life, IRIX has a amassed a laundry list of bugs label
by ChuckNorris89 3y ago
>it 'just worked', reliabily, month after month.
IRIX users would beg to differ. Towards the end of SGI's life, IRIX has a amassed a laundry list of bugs labeled critical that weren't getting fixed and the list was getting bigger, prompting many of the staff to leave SGI and many SGI customers to switch to BSD or Linux, further driving more nails into SGI's coffin.
- efrecon 3y agoI actually don't, but I think this has to do with the generations of the hardware and software combo. Early stuff would typically be very stable. Towards the end of their gold era, SGI urge out new stuff and reliability went down.
- jacquesm 3y agoAnything after 5.3 I missed because I had already seen the writing on the wall by then, so it may well be that both of these are true, but that we're talking about different times. Mine: 1995 until 2002 or so. Right about when they got VR crazy (a bit like what is happening with Facebook right now).