- For me personally, IRIX 6.x had one of the most beautiful (and colourful) GUIs ever.
For the curious, there is a guide (1) on how to run IRIX 6.5.22 in MAME.
- Wow, look at those luxurious titlebars, windows edges, scrollbars, and tabs! So easy to use.
One other thing lost, their scrollbars kept an indentation of where the bar was until you let go, which was sometimes useful.
Not a fan of the busy backgrounds, but can’t win ’em all.
Does anyone have a screenshot of the window menu (right click on titlebar)? Been looking for the CUA hotkeys related to those window functions. Most still work but are not shown on Linux desktops for some reason.
- They also loved italic!
- For those interested, there is a lovely IRIX clone WM called MaXX. I've been using it for a couple months and have been quite happy with it on a remote dev machine. I believe it only runs on xorg currently.
- Someone did a screen capture of a SGI "System Tour" app that explains how a lot of the UI worked:
- A blend of nextstep and macos classic somehow.
- I thought of BeOS for some reason.
- Unless it's true that they lost it, I really see no reason why HPE doesn't just release the official IRIX source code. It cannot be worth much at this point.
Maybe there's 3rd party code which SGI/HPE licensed? That's apparently why we can't have Operas Presto.
- Even if there isn't any 3rd party code, the whole process of going through the codebase to confirm there really isn't any 3rd party code, and generally getting the legal department to sign off on it, is a lot of work in itself. My impression is that this kind of "historic source" release typically only happens if somebody sufficiently senior in the company cares enough to actively push it through. The default is that nobody does care that much, and it doesn't happen.
"Do nothing" has essentially zero downside for a big company that happens to have something of niche interest like this in its vaults.
- third-party code is one thing, political correctness is another. What was acceptable in 90s brogrammer culture may not be considered acceptable by PR obsessed corporate types now.
To put this more charitably, the only reason to release something like this is to get some good PR, but if not carefully controlled, such a release could create more bad PR than good PR.
- How?
- > Maybe there's 3rd party code which SGI/HPE licensed?
IIRC, this was one of the complication of open sourcing Solaris back in the day.
- Yep, I recall one of the big components being libc i18n
- An obvious source for 3rd party code is that it’s a real UNIX System V derivative, so the AT&T code would need to be cleared.
- This leak has been floating around for years, and it's not even close to everything (i.e. no GUI pieces)
- As a long-time AIX admin I'd LOOOOOVE to see some of the AIX source.
I used to be connected to the community where stuff like this was passed around. But that was a long, long time ago.
- A partial but significant dump of 4.1 is easy to find. Probably leaked for/by Apple Network Server people.
- isn't this violating copyright?
- The mods do not seem to care about pirated software (or links to tons of it) being posted here, I have seen people doing it for years now.
- Dunno but the repo is 4+ years old.
- Interesting that GitHub recognizes "Roff" as a language.
- Is this real?
