17 Feb
2006
17 Feb
'06
8:34 a.m.
On Thursday 16 February 2006 20:49, compoobah at valleyimplants.com wrote:
I have the IndiZone 3 CD- Don't know what the
legal status is but as they
gave them away for shipping . . . Another thing that would be nice to have
would be IDO 4.1 for some of the older 4D IRI. Would be nice if SGI made
5.3 (and 6.2- almost OnTopic now) available, seeing as none of the machines
that will run them are currently supported by 6.5.(x>22), but it is likely
that there is much 3rd party code in there, and I doubt SGI has the extra
man-hours at this point to seek it out and ask for permission from all
concerned.
As soon as I get out from under a bunch of "real business" work, I'll check
with SGI on this matter. I have still have a few good connections internally
at SGI, so it's at least worth a shot.
One thing I really miss from their website was the
tarballs of
recommended/required patchsets for old systems- 5.3, 6.2 etc. Saved a lot
of time when you have an asphaltnet between you and the nearest high-speed
hookup. ftp.mayn.de/pub/really_old_stuff/irix has an eclectic collection of
stuff for older IRIXes. Like vmsone.net, I don't want to see this one
driven off the net so if many people want to get stuff from them, we should
probably try to "netpool" there- it was down for several months a while ago
already with a message about excessive bandwidth use.
I have just about everything that SGI ever had on their website - including
the final complete patch sets for IRIX 5.3 and 6.2. I also have install
media, some/many original patch kits for 5.3/6.2, and many of 6.5, etc. -
also scads of demo software. I also have the entire former "haeberli
directory" and the Developers Toolbox for 6.2 and 6.5.
I love to be able to make this stuff legally available...
Cheers,
Lyle
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Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
Mountain View, CA
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"