SGI - IRIX...

[Erik Baigar]

Hi there,

not much traffic in these groups any more. So before the IRIX OS
will die completely (I think end of all support by end of
December this year?), I want to ask two questions:

(1) Does anyone know whether the IRIX-OS source files will be
preserved somehow? Is there anyone aware of them put into
the public domain or at least saved for later publication?

I think IRIX is a great OS which deserves being preserved!

(2) Has any one seriously thought about emulation of IRIX soft-
and hardware? For other platforms this is quite usual, but
in case of SGI/MIPS/IRIX the answer of question (1) will
be the key to this question, right?

Anyhow still enjoying my I2, Octane and O2 machines almost
daily,

Erik.

[ctncit...@gmail.com]

Yes like you said .IRIX is great os.my office have one SGI O2 .It run more than 10 years without reset or shutdown. but I am new to this and it hard to understand the commands. I have try to use in several times with google search on another pc .but I cannot setup the networking on this SGI o2. now it is on the shelf like others old pcs.

[Erik Baigar]

ctncit...@gmail.com wrote:
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> Yes like you said .IRIX is great os.my office have one SGI O2 .It run more than 10 years without reset or shutdown. but I am new to this and it hard to understand the commands. I have try to use in several times with google search on another pc .but I cannot setup the networking on this SGI o2. now it is on the shelf like others old pcs.

Hi, great, that there are still people at least thinking
on powereing up their SGI stuff. Setting up networking on
the O2 should be not that difficult:

Log in, from the 4DWM Toolchest choose the System Manager. There
you will find "Networking and Connectivity" on the left panel.
This will display a menu on the right hand side and using the
first topic "Network Interface Manager" you can set up IP address,
system name etc. It should even accept DHCP configuration....

Erik.