[rescue] irix 3.3

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Thu Jan 31 06:44:52 CST 2002


On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 11:49:34PM -0800, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> > I just found some irix 3.3 screenshots.  If you ask me, it looked a lot better
> > than any Irix since.  Plus, it had NeWS!!!!  I wonder how old of a machine
> > I have to get to run that Irix...
> > 
> 
> Were are the screenshots? I always wanted to see 3.3 in action (I used to
> have the tapes), I think most 4D series (esp. the professionals) should
> run 3.3 with no problems. I was also looking for SGIs earlier windowing
> system, which I think it was called MEX, does anyone have info about this?

Well, the shots I found were of 4sight.  Check out:
http://sgistuff.g-lenerz.de/pictures/screenshots.html

Very cool looking.  I want an Irix 3.3 station, and also some pre-merger Alias
and/or wavefront software.  

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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