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Re: Today, 50 years ago

From	cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross)
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: Today, 50 years ago
Date	2026-04-15 18:41 +0000
Organization	PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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In article <20260415112101.00002c08@gmail.com>,
John Ames  <commodorejohn@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:04:29 -0000 (UTC)
>cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) wrote:
>
>> Irix was basically SVR4 with a bunch of SGI's cool graphics
>> stuff layered on top of it, but in terms of the actual OS, it
>> wasn't all _that_ different from other, similar commercial
>> Unixes out there at the time.  I remember thinking that SunOS,
>> OSF/1, and even Solaris, were more pleasant to work with.
>
>Irix's "Interactive Desktop" was much nicer and more polished than the
>GUIs offered by other commercial Unices at the time. Had a decent GUI
>package manager, as well.

Yeah, those are great examples of the cool graphics stuff I was
thinking about: the desktop environment was very clean.

A sysadmin I knew referred to SGIs as, "Grown up Macintoshes."
That wasn't a bad description, honestly.

For a long time, Irix was terribly insecure out of the box; I
remember they had a lot of default demo accounts and so on, some
of which were configured with UID 0, and no password.

	- Dan C.

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