Seeking SGI UNIX upgrade

[Richard Childers]

We've got an SGI box here, I don't know the model offhand, but it hasn't
been administered as well as it might be, and I'm trying to integrate it
back into the network.

One thing that would make the task a lot easier would be  new version of
the OS. The last OS I knew of for Iris systems was a port of System V.
It was OK. The line printer was wierd, and there were some processes that
needed to be propped up with scripts in order to remain alive, but it was
OK.

It didn't have NFS, though, and it lacked a lot of BSDisms that would make
it a lot easier to integrate ... much as Apollos found it easier to exist
with other workstations once they acquired a certain basic set of abilities.

I hear tell of something called IRIX. Is this what I'm looking for ?

Has anyone heard of anything that might fill some of the gaps outlined above ?

-- richard


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