Dr. Bruce SimpsonGet ready to falsify! Build 'em up, knock 'em down. Dennis #Ritchie 's words stick in my brain: "Bon Appetit!" #unix #plan9 #usl #svr4 #solaris #osf1 #dynix #hpux #irix #sgi #ultrix #tru64 #sunos #bsdos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook (Linux was not seriously in the running at this snapshot in time.)
Wolfgang StiefKabelsalat / Cable Salad. #onepicaday #vintagecomputing #cables #hpc #sgi #altix #altix4700 #interconnect
Retro Markus 🇩🇰🇩🇪#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogFind #sgi #unix #netscape #navigator #irix
Catch of the Day: The Jurassic Park Workstation! 🦖🖥️
Hey Retro Fans!
Hold on to your UNIX manuals, because today our FrogFind radar detected an absolute Hollywood star in the frog pond. Between the usual handhelds and Windows PCs, this breathtaking identifier suddenly appeared:
Netscape Navigator 4.75C-SGI on SGI IRIX!
For those who weren't in IT in the 90s: SGI stands for Silicon Graphics Inc. and IRIX was their proprietary UNIX operating system. SGI workstations (like the legendary Indigo2 or O2) were incredibly expensive, highly specialized graphics monsters. It was on exactly these machines that the dinosaurs for Jurassic Park, the liquid Terminator in T2, and even the hardware architecture for the Nintendo 64 were developed!
The fact that these Hollywood heavyweights came with their own specially customized version of the Netscape Navigator (the "C-SGI" at the end) straight from the manufacturer was standard back then. The fact that today, over 25 years later, a retro enthusiast boots up one of these UNIX legends, loads the IRIX OS, and surfs through our frog pond using the original SGI Netscape is retro computing at the absolute highest level.
Cheers to the Silicon Graphics workstations—may your MIPS processors calculate forever!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸
onion
screwlisp@rwxrwxrwx are you available on Tuesday-evenings-in-the-Americas for something like an Irix (SGI, MPI I guess) ecosystem discussion?
Er, who else do I need to tag here. Is anyone actually in contact with sdf's DJ Polybius http://archives.anonradio.net/#liquiddreamz ? Who else do I even know who worked with Irixes. @praetor ?
#irix #sgi #mpi if I got my off-the-cuff #computing #history wrong please do correct me forthwith! #graphicsProcessing #lispyGopherClimate
occultI found this guy selling 2 working #SGI Octane2’s.
I was tempted.
@flexion if you want to get in touch with this guy, he has several other SGI’s back home he’s looking to sell!
LorrySince I am on an accidental #nostalgia (naustalgia?) trip in trying to find old #MUD things, this one popped up on my Facebook feed which may amuse the #RetroComputing #VAX #VMS and #History of the #Internet folks.
This was UKNet's office in about 1994-1995
I think there are some #SUN and #SGI machines in there too, there definitely were somewhere.
SiliciumOubliez le RGB. Chez Silicon Graphics, même l'arrière des machines avait du style. Indigo, Teal, Crimson... Ce n'est pas un data center, c'est un nuancier Pantone pour génies de la 3D. 🎨💾
Vous les reconnaissez ?
maexchen1Klar wird das was
Das Thema ist ja nicht neu, dieses Buch ist 1999 von einer Werbeagentur entstanden
Damals gabs solche Bücher einfach nicht
#FilmGimp bzw. #CinePaint wurde in vielen Filmen benutzt wie #HarryPotter, #PlanetDerAffen
Namhafte Studios wie #DreamWorks etc steuerten Code bei
Ein Film der zu 100% mit #blender animiert wurde hat schon einen #Oscar gewonnen
Und Blender lief sogar schon auf #AmigaOS 🙈 & auch auf die damals 🐖 teuren #SGI Maschinen von #Hollywood und co
