Irix, the version of Unix supplied by technical computing specialist SGI, has been certified to run the Defense Department's Common Operating Environment (COE), the Mountain View, Calif.-based company ...

This is way out in left field.<BR><BR>When I used an SGI Irix on an O2 back in the late '90s, clicking on an icon made a satisfying metallic noise. It was like a "ka-chunk" noise, if I remember ...

Hey all--I have a program called MCNP (specifically, MCNP4C2) that I am attempting to install. If anyone has installed this program on an IRIX machine, please post! (It stands for Monte-Carlo ...

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Customers say The SCO Group’s threat against SGI to terminate its license to Unix System V will have little if any effect on their businesses. Customers say The SCO Group’s threat against SGI to ...

As an old SGI-Irix fan, I am distressed at watching the recent fortunes of SGI go from bad to worse. Alas, the once-great Unix company’s ultimate fate is far from certain, but there is no denying that ...

For the Emmy award-winning movie Titanic the production studio Digital Domain used Linux on a network of more than a hundred DEC Alpha machines to render the special effects. However, they used 350 ...

Hollywood-based digital film laboratory EFILM upgraded its facilities with the purchase of three SGI Onyx 3400 visualization systems, 30 TB of SGI Total Performance 9400 storage and the high-speed ...

Linux is a superset of the POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface for X) specification. It runs on commodity PC hardware, MIPS systems, Suns, Macintoshes and even IBM mainframes. It's sufficiently ...

SGI has confirmed plans to phase out its 18-year-old Irix server and workstation lines based on Mips processors. The company, which plans to emerge from bankruptcy protection this month, will attempt ...

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