http://www.osnews.com/story/2241/IRIX_6_5_18_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sun, 26 May 2013 03:23:41 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? i thought that sgi was phasing out irix.... could be wrong though Wed, 27 Nov 2002 22:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? That was quite a while ago. Now they're saying that they will have two lines. Mips/Irix and Itanium/Linux.

Shame you have to pay to get the maintenance stream now, though.
Oh well, I'll just have to wait 9 months till 6.5.18 is released for free. Wed, 27 Nov 2002 23:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? > Now they're saying that they will have two lines. Mips/Irix...


That's right. There are no plans to do anything with IRIX other than continue to enhance it by adding new features, add support for new hardware and fixing bugs! So it's the same story as it was years ago when IRIX was first conceived.

Another interesting story (I don't think I saw it here) was the release of the MIPSpro 7.4 compilers. 7.4 has much better C++ compliance, as well as full C99 support and some clever new optimizations. For all the info, look here:

http://www.sgi.com/developers/devtools/languages/mipspro.html

Ralph Thu, 28 Nov 2002 09:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments