8 Aug
2006
8 Aug
'06
8:50 p.m.
I've already aquired a couple of Personal IRISes,
an Indy and an Indigo2, so
I'm all set on the playing-around-with-IRIX front :)
Aahh yes - but IRIS x000 don't run IRIX, they run GL2-W with the MEX windowing
system. Verry different, verry interestink...
Might I suggest 4D1-3.3.2 (IRIX 3.3.2) on a PI - 4D1-3.x had a NeWS based
windowing-system, among the few NeWS systems
released standard (I'm not even sure which SunOS Sun's NeWS came with - SunOS 3
was SunView, SunOS 4 was OpenWindows
(NeWS+X11, but not strictly NeWS).
IRIX 5.3 should go on one machine (5.3+XFS should you be lucky enough to find it). This
will allow you to run COFF binaries.
The other one (R4k) should run an IRIX 6.x release.
The 3000 with GL2-W3.6 would fit in quite nicely...