Re:LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop
by rbanffy on Monday February 16, 2026 @05:05AM
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I love the IRIX look, but they’d need to update it past the 1990s. It’d look very dated to current audiences.
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NextStep looked pretty dated too, but it went through a nice evolution to bring it up to modern design standards .. if SGI had made that laptop and increased their marketshare I'm pretty sure Irix would've gotten a face-lift.
Anyway, its all about that alternative-universe, where the success of the SGI tiBook has everyone running Irix in their pockets ..
When NeXT acquired Apple (for one Steve Jobs, getting $400 million as change) OPENSTEP was not dated - it still looked impressive next to MacOS 9 and Windows. And CDE, of course, but that’s a very low bar.
It didn't look as great as Irix did back then, though ..