I just picked up an old Octane box dirt-cheap and have IRIX 6.5.13 running on it. Probably the best *nix experience I’ve ever had. Just plug it in, and bang, it’s networked and accessible from my Windows systems AND can access the internet (via Netscrape version -0.0001 or something. lol. Haven’t tried FF yet). It’s actually quite user-friendly and easy to use, and I actually managed to install quite a few apps… Definitely better than any other Linux distro I’ve ever used, albiet a slightly dated interface (think Windows 3.1 GUI with a *nix twist)
Raise your hand if you’ve used it before
lol. Wouldn’t be surprised if this thread remains reply-less and dies off.
Wow…I’ve never even heard of IRIX before. I found this on the IRIX webpage:
As of August 8, 2001 IRIX 6.5.13 is releasing with all new systems shipping from SGI worldwide manufacturing centers.
The IRIX 6.5.13 release contains updates for both the maintenance (6.5.13m) and feature (6.5.13f) streams. This release continues the focus on stability, reliability and compatibility required in the IRIX 6.5.X quarterly release process.
Approximately 133 customer reported incidents are fixed in this release. In addition to bug fixes, the IRIX 6.5.13 maintenance path delivers several software enhancements and additional installation improvements. Since a major goal of the IRIX 6.5.X release process is to provide a feature stream as stable as the maintenance stream, the same bug fixes and software enhancements are also applied to the IRIX 6.5.13 feature path.
Well, yeah. It’s Unix-based, but still, it’s comparable to Linux.
Apparently, an Octane can handle about 10 simultaneous users (can’t remember what the technology is called, but you can have like, several completely separate computers running off the one box with several monitors and different users), without affecting the performance of eachother. So… back in 1999, P3-600MHz was kinda the norm, so I guess my $150 Octane box is the equivalent of 10x P3-600MHz PCs
