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A Look at IRIX 6.5.17

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the xclock dept.

XFS writes "OSNews got their hands on the latest version of IRIX, 6.5.17 (released in August), and they have published an interesting article about it and they explain why IRIX was and still is, one of the best workstation Unices out there. Especially when it comes to multimedia/GL performance. I hope SGI will do something with IRIX though, as they seem to have let it fall behind and be one of these great technologies that get lost through various corporate focus shifts..."

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  1. Oh my god by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    And now we get all these posts from guys who know a bit of Linux who think they know *NIX because they post on slashdot.

  2. Thank god... by qurob · · Score: 2, Funny


    That they haven't gone with a Windows XP interface!

    Kudos to SGI!

  3. Dual 195MHz machine? by qurob · · Score: 5, Funny

    SGI was very kind to send us in this dual Octane 2x195 Mhz MIPS machine accompanied with a 24" SGI-branded Trinitron monitor.

    Otherwise, they would have had to shell out a whole $799.00 on eBay for one.

    What did SGI do, pull one from the junk bin?

    They should have sent some relatively modern hardware....

    1. Re:Dual 195MHz machine? by commodoresloat · · Score: 3, Funny
      I think it's worth remembering that Mhz means different things over in SGI land.

      Yeah - it means "megaherz" as opposed to "inches of penis length" as it means here in slashdot-land.

  4. OSNews / Eugenia filter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Please, can we have an OSNews / Eugenia filter for Slashdot?

  5. Re:"The OS looks dated" - WTF? by revision1_1 · · Score: 1, Funny

    1 paragraph fluff
    1 paragraph spin
    1/2 cup FUD
    [...]

    PROFIT!
  6. No more Eugenia, please by BurritoWarrior · · Score: 4, Funny

    All of her (his? its?) articles are completely myopic, focusing on "how nice/useable" is this as a desktop.

    Evaluating Irix on its UI alone is completely useless.