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I do remember something about SGI making you pay extra for the C compiler for IRIX. Perhaps they only made it free for universities.
by kokey 12y ago
I do remember something about SGI making you pay extra for the C compiler for IRIX. Perhaps they only made it free for universities.
- abruzzi 12y agoYup, they used MIPSpro compiler but it cost extra. And my recollection was that gcc wasn't fully functional without MIPSpro installed.
- opk 12y agoYou didn't get the system include files without having the compiler so, yes, gcc wasn't a full solution. Also missing without paying extra was troff so I had to use groff just to be able to format man pages (they mostly came preformatted).
- randcraw 12y agoThat was not the case when I used Irix (commercially), or later when I worked at SGI. Perhaps you mean "Son of SGI", the company that once was Rackable Systems?
- spydum 12y agoSun did the same thing on Solaris (charging extra for the compiler).
- blumentopf 12y agoIt wasn't free for universities, but in the first half of the 90s, SGI offered so-called "Varsity" contracts, which was basically a campus license for OS updates and unbundled products like compilers, NFS/YP and the "Documenter's Workbench" (a fancy name for troff/nroff).