Hewlett Packard Enterprise to buy SGI

Re:Hewlett Packard Enterprise to buy SGI by bogomipz on Friday August 12, 2016 @11:57AM (#12276645)

I had no idea SGI was still around. Does anyone know if IRIX is still around in some capacity as well then?

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Re:Hewlett Packard Enterprise to buy SGI by mrpippy on Friday August 12, 2016 @12:25PM (#12276867)

It is not, the last point release update (6.5.30) came out 10 years ago. They may still have active support contracts for some IRIX systems, but it's very much history at this point.

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Re:Hewlett Packard Enterprise to buy SGI by rootbear on Friday August 12, 2016 @12:52PM (#12277057)

It would be cool if they could release it as open source. There were aspects of IRIX that I really liked.

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Re:Hewlett Packard Enterprise to buy SGI by effie on Saturday August 13, 2016 @07:46AM (#12281117)

Could you give some examples? Perhaps it could inspire people to enhance current OSes.

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Re:Hewlett Packard Enterprise to buy SGI by bogomipz on Friday August 12, 2016 @03:20PM (#12278098)

I am imaging security wasn't one of them ;)

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