So what if SGI isn’t pushing out lots of updates. “It ain’t dead if anybody’s still using it!” and “If you don’t like it, don’t use it!” I can do almost all I want in them and a few things I still can’t do in some others without a lot of setup or tweaking hassle or third party add-ons.
The 2 systems I most enjoy working in are BeOS and IRIX.
Fast women are a world of problems unto themselves. Fast delivery often is only that in the advertisement. Fast cars often break more frequently and cost more to service. Fast food is just that, not nessarily good. I’d sooner use an Atari or even Heathkit and enjoy it or have it do just what I want how I want it than be miserable working on the newest, fastest “IT” machine money can buy. Not Infromation Technology per se, but the big “IT”. You use the hardware and/or OS that you damn well please and ignore all these ‘Oracles’ that dream themselves knowing what “IT” is and how “IT” should be done. I’ve heard they’re old/not fast, too proprietary, too expensive, relics, and about a thousand other “gifts of wisdom from the one truth” of others. *r12000 400mhz 2mb cache, 1 gig ram, v6 odysey video
#Make ram disk sgi linux windows
*r4400 200mhz 1mb cache, 256mb ram, 24-bit 1280×1024 video…not bad condiddering PCs were windows 3.1 486s in the era the indy was new! It’s the best source for hobbiest sgi and IRIX users. I have an Octane2* running IRIX 6.5.22, from ebay, comming in the mail soon. Unfortunatly I messed up IRIX (rm’ed some system files by mistake), and ended up putting debian on the indy and selling it. I tried out IRIX 6.2 last year on an indy* (a 10 year old machine!) and found lots of cool 3d toys in addition to simple and effective package management and expected unix stability. The design of the machines is more beautiful and functional then anything apple has put out. The hardware (if you can afford anything made less then 5 years ago) is top of the line. IRIX was the only user-friendly *nix before modern linux and OSX. I think everyone who has played with sgi hardware and IRIX develops a liking for it. It would also be nice to see SGI bring the costs of their workstations down to something approaching reasonable – not ultra-cheap, but an Itanium or even an Opteron workstation, uses OpenBoot for the Firmware and costs around NZ$4K-NZ$5K.
#Make ram disk sgi linux software
You’d have the benefits of having a large, specialised software development community, SUN has already ported their compilers and Solaris to Itanium already (Solaris got into beta testing via an Early Acccess programme back in the heady days of Itaniums development – it was promoted as the “SPARC/POWERPC Killer”). Regarding Itanium and Solaris with OpenSolaris (if it does actually occur), it would be an interesting turn of events if SGI embraced OpenSolaris, ported it to Itanium, and bought their IndigoMagic desktop over to Solaris. Trying to modify IRIX and bring it up to speed will be a waste of time when there’s already Solaris, FreeBSD or Linux freely available. IRIX is the past for SGI, they don’t care about it anymore, it’s too old of an OS now anyway. Trust me, the US Army pays them well to modify Linux for them and they have enough money to pay their bills. You simply don’t hear much from them anymore because they moved to a different market: US Army technologies. SGI has money, it doesn’t need to be bought or rescued.
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