Massive +1 for this, I am an 'IRIX refugee' living in Linux-land and I miss the sheer class that went with everything SGI. I am so pleased there are some people

Massive +1 for this, I am an 'IRIX refugee' living in Linux-land and I miss the sheer class that went with everything SGI. I am so pleased there are some people out there making sure the memory lives on. I would personally quite like the 'cpueater' desktop back, with some giant SGI logo rotating around in the corner of my desktop. I know everything is supposed to be better these days, but I don't feel it is. So much of the IRIX desktop - including the screen savers - could do with being rediscovered. I liked things like those little scroll wheels to zoom up the icons in a folder. The icon animations were pretty cool too, they had a language of their own so you knew if something was open or running from the icon state. Thinking about it, when IRIX died, Linux was just a little bit lame on the look and feel aspect. Imagine how cool it would have been if the picks of IRIX were ported to Linux to deliver a decent desktop. SGI could have done that but they went with NT. Had they gone the Linux direction they could have brought the 3D content tool makers over to it and they could have created something useful for programmer types. But it all went babies and bath water. P.S. Is Google Docs still down?