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The IRIX 6.5.7M (sgi) source code
- andsoitis 8mo agoisn't this violating copyright?
- sedawkgrep 8mo agoDunno but the repo is 4+ years old.
- majorchord 8mo agoThe mods do not seem to care about pirated software (or links to tons of it) being posted here, I have seen people doing it for years now.
- oldnetguy 8mo agoIs this real?
- mrweasel 8mo agoUnless it's true that they lost it, I really see no reason why HPE doesn't just release the official IRIX source code. It cannot be worth much at this point. Maybe there's 3rd party code which SGI/HPE licensed? That's apparently why we can't have Operas Presto.
- throw0101a 8mo ago> Maybe there's 3rd party code which SGI/HPE licensed? IIRC, this was one of the complication of open sourcing Solaris back in the day.
- linolevan 8mo agoYep, I recall one of the big components being libc i18n
- fredoralive 8mo agoAn obvious source for 3rd party code is that it’s a real UNIX System V derivative, so the AT&T code would need to be cleared.
- pm215 8mo agoEven if there isn't any 3rd party code, the whole process of going through the codebase to confirm there really isn't any 3rd party code, and generally getting the legal department to sign off on it, is a lot of work in itself. My impression is that this kind of "historic source" release typically only happens if somebody sufficiently senior in the company cares enough to actively push it through. The default is that nobody does care that much, and it doesn't happen. "Do nothing" has essentially zero downside for a big company that happens to have something of niche interest like this in its vaults.
- miki123211 8mo agothird-party code is one thing, political correctness is another. What was acceptable in 90s brogrammer culture may not be considered acceptable by PR obsessed corporate types now. To put this more charitably, the only reason to release something like this is to get some good PR, but if not carefully controlled, such a release could create more bad PR than good PR.
- actionfromafar 8mo agoHow?
- mrweasel 8mo agoI don't recall which product it was, it may have been Microsoft, that needed to sanitizes their code before releasing it. There where a lot of not so nice comments about other companies and oh so much swearing. Not really the type of language a company would have their name attached to.
- actionfromafar 8mo agoHm, it could be done with llm today. Or remove all comments
- sedawkgrep 8mo agoAs a long-time AIX admin I'd LOOOOOVE to see some of the AIX source. I used to be connected to the community where stuff like this was passed around. But that was a long, long time ago.
- kev009 8mo agoA partial but significant dump of 4.1 is easy to find. Probably leaked for/by Apple Network Server people.
- ranger_danger 8mo agohttps://github.com/Arquivotheca/AIX-4.1.3 https://github.com/Arquivotheca/AIX-4.1.3
- sedawkgrep 8mo agoThanks - I downloaded the repo but it's only ~64MB zipped. No way that's all of AIX 4.1.3. :(
- reconnecting 8mo agoFor me personally, IRIX 6.x had one of the most beautiful (and colourful) GUIs ever. For the curious, there is a guide (1) on how to run IRIX 6.5.22 in MAME. 1. https://sgi.neocities.org https://sgi.neocities.org
- mixmastamyk 8mo agoWow, look at those luxurious titlebars, windows edges, scrollbars, and tabs! So easy to use. One other thing lost, their scrollbars kept an indentation of where the bar was until you let go, which was sometimes useful. Not a fan of the busy backgrounds, but can’t win ’em all. Does anyone have a screenshot of the window menu (right click on titlebar)? Been looking for the CUA hotkeys related to those window functions. Most still work but are not shown on Linux desktops for some reason.
- sgt 8mo agoThey also loved italic!
- mixmastamyk 8mo agoYeah, they were a few years ahead of cleartype/retina unfortunately.
- senko 8mo ago> Wow, look at those luxurious titlebars, windows edges, scrollbars, and tabs! So easy to use. That's just Motif: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motif_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motif_(software) Shame it wasn't under an open license to begin with (they relicenced it to LGPL waaay too late). We've been reimplementing it ever since.
- hedgehog 8mo agoSomeone did a screen capture of a SGI "System Tour" app that explains how a lot of the UI worked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg8fiA9TrRk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg8fiA9TrRk
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- dboreham 8mo agoInteresting that GitHub recognizes "Roff" as a language.
- mrpippy 8mo agoThis leak has been floating around for years, and it's not even close to everything (i.e. no GUI pieces)
- johnthescott 8mo agobrings back happy memories of my indigoII.
- DrNosferatu 8mo agoThen soon there will be a port for the N64!