Why IRIX sucks (was Re: [rescue] Sparcstation 2 help!Please)

[Ken Hansen]

Corporate policy determines the technical merit of the Operating System?

Based on that (interesting) view, How does Linux rank as *great* when it has
no Corporate structure?

Gas for my $35K SUV costs $1.40/gallon, then using your logic it should cost
about $0.14/gallon for my 11 year-old Honda, valued at about $3.5K...

The OS is a current product, and it's price is not based on the depreciation
value of the previous generations of machines... That you can buy a machine
without an OS for $300, does not mean you are entitled to/deserve a free OS
from the Mfg...

Sorry for the rant, but this reminds me of the Solaris 7 thread on the
SPARCbook maillist...

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alistair MacDonald" <AlistairMacDonald at economist.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 7:27 AM
Subject: Re: Why IRIX sucks (was Re: [rescue] Sparcstation 2 help!Please)



=== brt at osk.sema.se 24/09/2001 12:04:51 ===
>Alistair MacDonald wrote:

*** I wrote this bit though ... ***
>> Simple. IRIX sucks because it costs $300 for media and you still don't
have a licence.

>Heh...
>For some reason that amount of money quite insignificant when you pay
>$300.000 worth of hardware, don't you think?
>$300 i todays prices. Compare that with what your I2 or Indy cost when
>they were new.

If I was paying $300,000 for it then yes, it is insignificant. I'm not - I'm
paying around $300. By that logic I should be able to get the media for
about $3. Even Sun don't do the media that cheap!

Of course, the real point is availability. If I want Solaris I can get the
core of solaris for free, or I can pay Sun to get the CDs with all the extra
bits. If I want IRIX I can't do this. So I run Linux. (I still can't do the
graphics, but at least I can use the hardware!) If I could get IRIX media
and licence for around $70 I'd get it today.

Alistair

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