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The 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
by hapless 14y ago
The 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)