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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. ooh by rastachops · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    mmm nix

  2. Re:Oh my god by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Most insightful post ever. Congratulations.

  3. Re:Why is SGI not switching to FreeBSD ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    *YAWN*

    BSD we are better crap....

    Ever wondered why it's not that populair, maybe because of people like you...

  4. "change the tsch shell over to Bash" by wunderhorn1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Tsch, tsch. Forget to spellcheck the article, did we?

    Or is that some sort of German reworking of the Berkely c shell...? "tenex schnell"?

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    Karma: Bored. (Thinking about resurrecting the "Anyone else is an imposter" joke.)