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Adobe Photoshop 3 was released for Solaris Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere all were released for IRIX. It's almost as if IRIX and Solaris used to have a v
by mathnode 14y ago
Adobe Photoshop 3 was released for Solaris
Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere all were released for IRIX. It's almost as if IRIX and Solaris used to have a very large workstation customer base then everything was migrated to NT, Mac, and Linux, how spooky those crazy expensive workstations didn't stay viable for long. O-M-G girlfriend, history is like totally repeating itself!
- hapless 14y agoThe Adobe suite on IRIX/Solaris used a really clumsy macintosh-to-motif auto-port system. The resulting ports were really bad. Before Photoshop on Macintosh, the normal way to do that type of work on a computer was to buy a turnkey system from BarcoColor or similar. Yes, the bundled UNIX workstation might run IRIX, but it was turnkey -- the end user just wanted to run Barco. Photoshop on a Mac IIfx cost about 1/10th as much and was at least half as good. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the bottom dropped out of the turnkey market for photoshop-type tasks. (For video, it stayed alive and well for many more years: discreet was selling IRIX turnkey up until 2004 or so)