RE: A good OS centric discussion on performance

I remember a few years back we used to have a lab with Irix machines, 30 computers or so. Student seniors used to do their grad projects on Maya software. It was sad to see them go as they were never fully integrated with the rest of the Windows network. What a shame!

Julio Quijada
Programmer Analyst
Alfred State College

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Actually, for Oracle, I'm not at all a an of Irix. It was a great O/S, but, I had nothing but trouble w/ Oracle clients, and there was the N32 nonsense, which I never did get working correctly.

And, I don't think I ever knew what Irix stood for...

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Wow, I can't believe y'all are such fans of Irix...who remembers what
Irix stood for huh? 


Thanks! 
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Who remembers all the cool little graphics demos?  Buttonfly, the 3D
spider walking on the checkerboard plane, several others that I'm not
remembering anymore.  

And, that reminds me of the classic line from  Jurrasic Park, little
girl standing in front of an SGI box w/ buttonfly demo running, "Hey, I
know this!  This is Unix!" ;-) 


-Mark

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> I concur. I worked on Indigo, Indy and Challenge boxes, together with 

> Joze Senegacnik, another member of this group. Beautiful boxes, even 

> for today's standard (Irix 4 and Irix 5 at that time). Indy used to 

> have a webcam long, long time before it became standard. Playing bz 

> was fun, too. Good, old days!


used to have an Indy as my workstation.  sweeeeeeeet.;-)




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