3 Jul
2007
3 Jul
'07
8:56 a.m.
In article <44395.33832.qm at web52703.mail.re2.yahoo.com>,
Mr Ian Primus <ian_primus at yahoo.com> writes:
I don't have any pictures yet, but at some point soon I expect to be
buying a digital camera and will be putting lots of pictures of my
collection on the computer graphics history museum. RISC/os was
created by MIPS and licensed to various workstation manufacturers.
E&S wasn't the only one to use RISC/os. IRIX is influenced by RISC/os
but is not a pure derivative of it, according to
<http://www.tliquest.net/ryan/sgi/irix_versions.html>. I guess IRIX
was around on the 68K based SGI boxes before they mvoed to the MIPS
architcture.
Are you
talking about RISC/os, the SysV/BSD hybrid
sold by MIPS for
their R3000 and later processors?
The Evans & Sutherland ESV workstation series used
this operating
system. I have two machines intact and a complete
set of RISC/os
documentation.
Evans & Sutherland? Now _that's_ an interesting beast.
I had no idea that's what their OS was called - that's
really cool. Got any pictures? I was referring to the RiscOS operating system that
ran on the Acorn Archimedes computer (based on the ARM
processor). One of those little computers you just
don't see in the US.
OK, makese sense now and yeah, I don't see those around :-).
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