[rescue] SGI

[Dave McGuire]

On 10/5/23 10:40, Mouse via rescue wrote:
>>> so other than IRIX, what other OS does anybody recommend for the
>>> indigo2 (Teal)??
>> I'm not sure why anyone would run anything other than IRIX on an SGI.
>> The combination of hardware and OS is the magic.
> 
> Speaking personally:
> 
> Why?  Because IRIX is closed source.

   Well yeah, but nothing else takes advantage of the hardware, and 
IRIX, closed source or not, is a fantastic OS.

> Of course, the hardware analog (undocumented hardware) would make me
> prefer an opener machine than an SGI to begin with.  I have used
> machines with undocumented hardware - but I prefer to ignore the
> undocumented hardware rather than use closed software to access it.

   Well then.

             -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA