5 engineers on Hacker News describe using IRIX first-hand: 1 endorse it, 2 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“IRIX was a very nice BSD Unix. We built one of the first ISPs in Hong Kong on IRIX.”
endorse · production · deerpig · 2017-02-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“PC hardware was running rings around Irix workstations. The O2 was basically the slowest machine you could buy at the time.”
regret · production · honkhonkpants · 2016-08-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“All the knowledge I accumulated on IRIX is worth nothing because it's no longer in demand.”
regret · production · 5 yr · blumentopf · 2011-10-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I started in the industry when you were born, with IRIX, HPUX (horrible) and Solaris.”
neutral · production · zeruch · 2022-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I cut my teeth on proper X Window terminals and Motif Window Manager (and NeXTSTEP and SGI IRIX workstations, etc, etc.)”
neutral · personal · InclinedPlane · 2018-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?