19 Jun
2004
19 Jun
'04
6:37 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Benjamin Gardiner once stated:
Does anyone know where one can source the older versions of IRIX for
these machines, be it cd or tape images? I know this machine could run
IRIX 5.3 which one could get off ebay, but as this machine only has 16
meg of ram, I would prefer to run one of the older versions of IRIX on
it, be it 3.x.x or 4.x.x as I haven't ever realy played round with
these older versions of UNIX before.
If you can get 3x, do so---it's the last version that came with NeWS
(Network Extensible Window System or something like that)---starting with
4.0 SGI switched to X with (more or less) standard X Window Managers (4Dwm
is quite nice, but still, it's an X Window manager) and I don't think
there's any real difference between 4x and 5x.
-spc (Actually, avoid 5x at all costs---it's a real hog)