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From: madcrow.maxwell@gmail.com (Michael Kerpan)
Subject: [TUHS] Open Sourcing IRIX?
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 18:46:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8dd2d95c0611261546oc61764n4620d90a87dbcb70@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57FF0370-6EC5-4282-BCB2-06DD34C3C2B1@mac.com>

That would be pretty cool, but frankly the IRIX kernel is unneccsary.
A bettter thing to do would be to contribute the stuff like the IRIX
GUI and the like.

Mike

On 11/26/06, Lord Doomicus <lorddoomicus at mac.com> wrote:
> Since SGI is EOL'ing IRIX at the end of the year, has anyone asked them if
> they would donate it's source ( under some sort of OSI license of course )
> to the UNIX archive?
>
> Or is there too much SysV code in it?
>
> It would be cool to have easy access to the older IRIX versions for older
> SGI hardware.
>
>
> - Derrik
>
> Derrik Walker v2.0, RHCE
> lorddoomicus at mac.com
> http://www.doomd.net
>
> ...  I am using an Apple Macintosh to design the Cray-3 supercomputer.  --
> Seymour Cray, 1986
>
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-26 23:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-26 23:13 Lord Doomicus
2006-11-26 23:46 ` Michael Kerpan [this message]
2006-11-27  3:34 ` Paul Duffy
2006-11-27 14:41   ` Michael Kerpan
2006-11-28  7:12     ` Wesley Parish
2006-11-28 13:17       ` Michael Kerpan
2006-11-28 13:41         ` John Cowan
2006-11-29  7:04           ` Wesley Parish
2006-11-29  7:14             ` M. Warner Losh
     [not found]         ` <8B9D43B4-BCF3-4768-98D3-E2D77248458E@vetsystems.com>
2006-11-28 16:57           ` Michael Kerpan

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