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This is great to see -- I used to have an SGI Indy/O2 (I think!) The last time I looked there were no comment Irix emulators out there. Somewhere I've still got
by azalemeth 3y ago
This is great to see -- I used to have an SGI Indy/O2 (I think!)
The last time I looked there were no comment Irix emulators out there. Somewhere I've still got a giant load of CDs of Irix 6.2 and some rather niche scientific software, now perpetually licensed abandonware, mostly related to medical imaging or crystallography. I think it's hard to appreciate just got unique the platform was in its time, and it found lots of high end uses, from video editing and computer graphics to science.
It's also a bit like Mac OS 9 and CDE had a hybrid child. Somewhere there's an alternative timeline in which it took over and the world had OS X about ten years earlier than it actually did.
- TehCorwiz 3y agoIs that software preserved anywhere like Archive.org?
- samstave 3y agoDefinitely get that software uploaded, and ideally LLM'd (whats the proper word) - the medical inmaging stuff might be really interesting to teach on. The crystalography stuff sounds interesting as well. I first went to school (Mesmer Animation Labs, Seattle (later became UW's animation department) and learned on INDYs, O2s and a couple Octanes. I chose Softimage over Alias|Wavefront (Maya) at the time. I wish I still had my .DAT tape of my work - but those machines were beautiful. Later, when I worked on a big Animation Studio's HQ build - we threw hundred-thousand dollar rack-sized SGI cabinets in the trash.... :-(
- sillywalk 3y agoIf it was medical imaging, I think it would likely have been the O2, not the Indy. But I believe Irix 6.3 was the earliest for the O2. Was it a pizza box or a mini tower?