X-Nico

5 unusual facts about IRIX


Galahad library

Support is provided for many operating systems, including Digital UNIX, Tru64 UNIX, Linux, HP-UX, AIX, IRIX and Solaris, and for a variety of popular Fortran 90 compilers on these platforms and operating systems.

IRIX

Other tools include Speedshop for performance tuning, and Performance Co-Pilot.

QuickTransit

These systems, based on Itanium 2 processors and the Linux operating system, used QuickTransit to transparently run application binaries compiled for previous SGI systems based on the MIPS processor and IRIX operating system.

Richard Belluzzo

He was a strong advocate at HP to reduce their investments in HP-UX and PA-RISC in favor of Windows NT and Itanium, as well as getting SGI to cut their investments in IRIX and MIPS.

Weather Star XL

The Weather Star XL utilizes the SGI IRIX Operating System with custom written software for The Weather Channel.


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4Sight

All IRIX releases from 4.0 to 6.5.30 utilized X11 (Xsgi) and SGI's modified Motif window manager 4Dwm.

Lempel–Ziv–Oberhumer

Various LZO implementations are reported to work under Win32, AIX, ConvexOS, IRIX, Mac OS, Palm OS, PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Wii, Solaris, SunOS, TOS (Atari ST), Linux and VxWorks.


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