Star First Impressions from SGI's MIPSpro Compiler Suite 7.4
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 9th Dec 2002 04:57 UTC
SGI and IRIX The compiler suite coming for all SGI MIPS-based machines is one of the best optimized development tools for any platform. SGI has put many years of experience on the newest version of the series, MIPSpro 7.4, which we recently gave it a spin.
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RE: Superficiality
by aka on Tue 10th Dec 2002 11:50 UTC

> Pink edit boxes, a yellow background, blue buttons, and
> liberal use of non-smoothed italic fonts...B-L-E-C-H.
> =P
...
> with italic fonts everywhere is heinous

Oh, come on people, default widgets properties are all configurable ;)
Besides, .xdefaults and .xresources are still working...

It's quite clear that the majority of the anti-SGI, anti-SUN and anti-Tru64 posts come from linux zealots, who think xterm window should highlight directories and recognized file types.

I don't live in the past and I don't mind nice IDE, using myself the one on Win32, but now imagine, you're sitting at the customer site testing your beloved piece of code and it cores. Modem 33600 is your only entrance to cvs in your company. In this case Exceed or other Xserver is out of question, pure terminal only...

I agree that the article lacks some tests figures.

P.S. I personally also dislike the palette of the screenshot, especially background ;)