On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Ryan Stanyan <ryan.stan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday, January 03, 2011 05:28:23 pm Benjamin Scott wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Tom Buskey <t...@buskey.name> wrote: > > > For its time, the Indy was pretty cool. > > > > SGI was the Unix world's answer to the Apple Macintosh: Physical > > design is colorful, bold, almost artistic; all the OEM pieces work > > together very well; oh-so-pretty desktop GUI; utterly incompatible > > with anything third-party; way more expensive than everything else. > > ;-) > > > > Now, of course, with OS X, Apple has reclaimed that particular > > niche. There's a strange kind of symmetry there. > > I remember seeing a nice Macintosh emulator for Irix once. FWIW, the Indy is a bit faster then the Indigo (not Indigo2). The one I'm offering is a later model with a MIPS 5000 chip. > I can remember seeing Jurassic Park and seeing all those SGI workstations > all > around the place, with a Connection Machine as a background prop. Coming > from > a Tandy 1000/Apple II world when I was young the graphics floored me. I > think > that shaped my mind that Unix was a high-end scientific and visualization > operating system rather than the almost purely server world it's in right > now. > I think Nvidia was founded by ex SGI people. > This also drove me to start using Linux as well. > > I remember Apple having a flavor of Unix in the early 90s. I used it only > once and found it somewhat awkward to use. Going with a re-made NeXTStep > was > definitely the better choice. > A/UX. It ran on the 68k systems and was based on AT&T Sys V.3. It would run System 7 programs. None of it is in MacOSX which is a Mach microkernel with FreeBSD derived system on top. I'd like to find a copy to run on a IIci systems I have.
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