I started my sysadmin career on Irix as well... In it's time, there was not much else which could touch it for large filesystems and fast IO. I wish I'd had a way to keep (and I mean actually power and maintain) the Origin 2k I started with.... But who can fit something the size of a clothes washer and requires 2x240v to power. Kris Browne kris.browne at gmail.com 612-293-8394 http://www.google.com/profiles/kris.browne "the least expensive, most bug-free line of code is the one you didn't have to write." - Steve Jobs On Jan 1, 2012, at 10:48 AM, Josh Trutwin wrote: > On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:52:29 -0600 (CST) > Yaron <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, 30 Dec 2011, Florin Iucha wrote: >> >>> I got NetBSD to run on mine at some point - and I know the OpenBSD >>> folks got it working as well. >> >> I've got Linux running on MIPS hardware, but I really wanted IRIX >> on this thing. IRIX had some pretty cool visual demos that were >> just super cool, especially for the time, and I wanted to play with >> those. Anyone remember Electropaint? > > Yeah, I do. Cut my teeth on SGI. Back in the day I was a student > worker at college for the Unix admin and we setup about 2 dozen O2's > and other SGI's, Indigo's and Indy's for CSCI and Physics. I am > actually now the sys admin there and we still have two of these O2's > in the physics department. Physics is always the last to cling to old > computer stuff. :) They were nifty boxes. My first job out of > college was actually for a place doing development on SGI's, had one > of the big servers, an Origin. I *might* have some IRIX cd's laying > around somewhere if you're interested. > > Those were the days... > > Happy new year, > > Josh > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list