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Historically it's interesting, but come on, give us the IRIX source code, we know you have it somewhere.
by mrweasel 1y ago
Historically it's interesting, but come on, give us the IRIX source code, we know you have it somewhere.
- bitwize 1y agoIBM - AIX DEC - Ultrix/Digital Unix Apple - A/UX, macOS HP - HP-UX SGI - IRIX Sun - SunOS, Solaris
- spijdar 1y agoGiven acquisitions, the current IP ownership is more like: IBM - AIX HPE - ULTRIX, Tru64/OSF1/DIGITAL UNIX, HP-UX, IRIX Apple - A/UX, macOS Oracle - SunOS, Solaris
- pkaye 1y agoIf HP and Sun had merged, I wonder if HP-UX would become HP-SUX.
- hawflakes 1y agoIt’s in the Jargon file. Your comment made me remember this bit: Hackers at HP/Apollo (the former Apollo Computers which was swallowed by HP in 1989) have been heard to complain that Mr. Packard should have pushed to have his name first, if for no other reason than the greater eloquence of the resulting acronym. https://zvon.org/comp/r/ref-Jargon_file.html#Terms~HP-SUX https://zvon.org/comp/r/ref-Jargon_file.html#Terms~HP-SUX
- burnt-resistor 1y agoIn the 00's, the CS program at my undergrad university had computer clusters with all of the above +Linux +MINIX -Apple -DEC. It was de rigueur then to write portable C/C++ code and (non-GNU) Makefiles. Also, lest not forget the contentious one: SCO - SCO -> Sun -> Oracle
- sillywalk 1y agoIt's not complete but there's this: https://github.com/calmsacibis995/irix-6517-src https://github.com/calmsacibis995/irix-6517-src
- LargoLasskhyfv 1y agoWhat's missing?