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IRIX Dead

IRIX
KindOperating system
Appeared1988
Ended2006
StatusDead
CreatorSGI
FamilyUnix
PlatformMIPS
Sourcebitsavers.org ↗

SGI's graphics Unix — XFS, Indigo Magic, and Jurassic Park's workstation; died with the company it beautified.

Descended from Research Unix
Ran on SGI Indy
Created by Silicon Graphics

IRIX (1988) was SGI's SVR4 Unix for the graphics workstations — the first commercial OS with OpenGL built in, the XFS journaling filesystem, and the MediaVision tools that made SGI the effects standard.\n\nIRIX ended with the MIPS line (SGI moved to Linux/IA-64); its final release 6.5.30 shipped 2006.

Sources

  1. bitsavers.org/pdf/sgi/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIX