[Beowulf] [External] Re: old sm/sgi bios

[Ryan Novosielski]

At some point in my career, I was responsible for Solaris (from 2.5 to 10), AIX (I don’t recall the versions of this, but we had RS/6000s), HP-UX (10 to 11i), IRIX (5.3 to 6.5), Linux (probably kernel 2.0 days to the present?), NextOS, macOS X, and now mostly Linux. Never touched Digital, and I can’t remember if there are any others that exist that I just forgot I dealt with. I don’t feel like one was significantly worse than any of the others, honestly, except you ran into compatibility problems on stuff like HP-UX because it was less common.

I have a soft spot for SGI’s “inst” packaging system, and their stuff always made neat noises. I too used an IRIX Desktop as my workstation for many years (eventually, an Indy got too slow to do much web browsing).

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On Mar 23, 2023, at 14:54, Joe Landman <joe.landman at gmail.com> wrote:


Nah ... that honor belongs to HPUX or AIX. If you used them, you would understand.

Irix was my daily driver for ~7 years, until 1999 when I switched to Linux (and stayed there up to this day).

Work machine is a MacOS to Linux machines.  Home machines 70-30 linux to mac.  No windows.


On 3/23/23 14:50, Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf wrote:
irix
Worst. Unix. Ever.

On 3/23/23 1:07 PM, Michael DiDomenico wrote:
ack, irix flashbacks... :) fortunately, this machine isn't quite that
old, circa 2013

On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 1:02 PM Darren Wise via Beowulf
<beowulf at beowulf.org><mailto:beowulf at beowulf.org> wrote:
Hello,

I don't personally have such myself but anything SGI even with today's
exotics Ians about the most knowledgable I know of globally and
seriously dying out within this sector, I hazard a guess your SM board
would be considered quite new compared to other systems.

http://www.sgidepot.co.uk/sgidepot/


Kind Regards,
Darren Wise
Research Engineer, Mechatronics
https://wisecorp.co.uk<https://wisecorp.co.uk/>, .us & .ru

On 23/03/2023 16:51, Michael DiDomenico wrote:
does anyone happen to have an old sgi / supermicro bios for an
X9DRG-QF+ motherboard squirreled away somewhere?  sgi is long gone,
hpe might have something still but who knows where.  i reached out to
supermicro, but i suspect they'll say no.
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