Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 9th May 2006 21:25 UTC
Got $18m to spare? That's the market capitalization of one of Silicon Valley's most glamorous companies this morning, after Silicon Graphics Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The size of SGI's debt - at $664m it's twice the value of its assets - is enough to deter all but the most determined bargain hunter. Apart from a ragbag of trademarks - such as OpenGL - what growth has SGI left to offer?
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One of the reasons for that stability is that it ran on very specific hardware which had been designed from the bottom up by the same company who wrote the OS. If they lost the hardware control (as they would switching to Intel) they would lose much of the stability.
Also Irix is written from the ground up for MIPS and has been tested for years on MIPS hardware. Porting would be a massive undertaking requiring re-writing large parts and thus introducing plenty of new bugs.
So even if porting Irix to Intel would be feasable, doing so would lose you the main advantage of Irix.
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I wish it got converted to run on intel/AMd cpu:s.
Irix is one of the most stabile OSes i have ever used. We actually sold a lot of SGI servers a couple of years ago for the graphical market.
We also sold (and do sell today) SUN, macosX, windows and linux as server OSes, but none of them were/is as stabile as Irix was/is.
To bad they hardly releases any updates for irix anymore.