I started my sysadmin career on Irix as well... In it's time, there was not much else which could touch it for large filesystems and fast IO.

I wish I'd had a way to keep (and I mean actually power and maintain) the Origin 2k I started with.... But who can fit something the size of a clothes washer and requires 2x240v to power.

Kris Browne
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On Jan 1, 2012, at 10:48 AM, Josh Trutwin wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:52:29 -0600 (CST)
> Yaron <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 30 Dec 2011, Florin Iucha wrote:
>> 
>>> I got NetBSD to run on mine at some point - and I know the OpenBSD
>>> folks got it working as well.
>> 
>> I've got Linux running on MIPS hardware, but I really wanted IRIX
>> on this thing. IRIX had some pretty cool visual demos that were
>> just super cool, especially for the time, and I wanted to play with
>> those. Anyone remember Electropaint?
> 
> Yeah, I do.  Cut my teeth on SGI.  Back in the day I was a student
> worker at college for the Unix admin and we setup about 2 dozen O2's
> and other SGI's, Indigo's and Indy's for CSCI and Physics.  I am
> actually now the sys admin there and we still have two of these O2's
> in the physics department.  Physics is always the last to cling to old
> computer stuff.  :)  They were nifty boxes.  My first job out of
> college was actually for a place doing development on SGI's, had one
> of the big servers, an Origin.  I *might* have some IRIX cd's laying
> around somewhere if you're interested.
> 
> Those were the days...
> 
> Happy new year,
> 
> Josh
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