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Re:Emulate Mac OS 9 with QEMU by protomyth on Sunday December 02, 2018 @10:40PM (#18586166)
Which company ended up with the rights to IRIX?
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Re:Emulate Mac OS 9 with QEMU by IntelMiner on Sunday December 02, 2018 @11:00PM (#18586231)
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIX and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics#Final_bankrup...

"Rackable Systems, Inc" picked them up, and then got acquired by HP

Presumably HP now owns IRIX then? Though it seems to have been retired

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Re:Emulate Mac OS 9 with QEMU by unixhero on Monday December 03, 2018 @02:06AM (#18586893)
The charm in using Silicon Graphics machines was the dedicated hardware and graphics pipelines that these machines had. In addition to that the awesome, no, supreme hardware design and cool boxes.

I maintain that emulating Irix, wouldnt bring all of that back. It would be like watching porn instead of doing it.

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Re:Emulate Mac OS 9 with QEMU by Keyframe on Monday December 03, 2018 @04:02AM (#18587343)
At the time? Of course. With modern hardware speeds and bandwidth, it ought to work just right. Maybe not the last of the lineup (Tezro), but it would get there. Just like it did with (less powerful) Amiga. Problem is that so much of the stuff was custom inside.
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