My SGI page is no longer being updated and is no longer hosted here. A copy of the last update has been made available thanks to Siliconbunny. It's public domain now, so it's all yours. Thanks to everyone who contributed over the years!

I think this Ars Technica poster explained it best:

"IRIX really isn't that interesting. You'll play for it for a week, download netscape 4, flip through 'powerflip' looking at all the nifty demos, fiddle with ifconfig, get stuff up and running, and then realize that you can't really do anything with it that you couldn't do for less watts/hour with a 2 year old laptop.

"Sure, 15 years ago, it was mind-numbingly awesome. Hell, thinking back, I still get a little verklemft. But honestly, it'll just be a let-down. I had the same thing with OS/2, which back in the day, I loved in that feverish 'also-has-a-pocket-protector' way. So I installed it on VPC. Man, Whew. How far we've come.

"I remember sitting down at an Onyx deskside, and going through one of those 'used by the military' flight sims, and you know... bah. CoD 3 is frickin' way ahead of that. Irix was a really nifty Unix, back in the days when sun's default colors for Motif were 'Angry Fruit Salad'. The time has passed. The only sad thing is that I can't think of anything that's as frickin' awesome today as Irix was in '91."