When I was working at UniPress in New Jersey, we had an SGI Iris named pink on which we
developed the 4Sight versions of NeWS Emacs (NeMACS).
Speaking of SGI leaks:
Those things are fucking heavy!
It was raining torrentially outside and the UniPress office started to flood, so we had to
keep taking shelves down off the wall and wedging them underneath the Iris to jack it up
above the water, as it kept getting deeper and deeper.
Ron will remember the emergency bailing technique MG and I developed of repeatedly filling
the shop vac with water then flushing it down the toilet.
The Indigos were another story entirely: They couldn't touch the raw graphics
performance of an Iris, since the rendering was all in software, but you could actually
stuff one of them in the overhead compartment on an airplane!
And then there was the SGI Indy... They made up for being small on the outside, by being
HUGE and BLOATED in the inside:
"Indy: an Indigo without the 'go'". -- Mark Hughes (?)
This legendary leaked SGI memo has become required reading for operating system and
programming language design courses:
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cs415/reading/irix-bloat.txt
<http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cs415/reading/irix-bloat.txt>
-Don
On 12 Oct 2017, at 15:16, Don Hopkins
<SimHacker(a)gmail.com> wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLDnPiXyME0
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLDnPiXyME0>
On 12 Oct 2017, at 15:04, Michael-John Turner
<mj(a)mjturner.net <mailto:mj@mjturner.net>> wrote:
Hi,
I came across this on Lobsters[1] today and thought it may be of interest to the list:
http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/tirix/embarrassing-memo.html
<http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/tirix/embarrassing-memo.html>
It appears to be an internal SGI memo that's rather critical of IRIX 5.1. Does
anyone know if it's true?
[1]
https://lobste.rs/ <https://lobste.rs/>
Cheers, MJ --
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