Running 9front on an emulated SGI Indy via MAME

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Post by todsacerdoti » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 5:16 AM UTC

Running 9front on an emulated SGI Indy via MAME
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Re: Running 9front on an emulated SGI Indy via MAME

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Post by MrBuddyCasino » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 7:18 AM UTC

Fyi, 9front is a Plan9 fork.

Re: Running 9front on an emulated SGI Indy via MAME

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Post by calvinmorrison » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 7:55 AM UTC

MrBuddyCasino wrote: post #2

Fyi, 9front is a Plan9 fork.

9front is _the_ plan9 fork. The only one with an active contributor team, new software being written for it etc. Though its a fairly loosely coupled open source community where people tend to pull in patches and run their own stuff anyway.

If you are interested in 9, look at 9 front

Re: Running 9front on an emulated SGI Indy via MAME

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Post by odc » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 9:42 AM UTC

Gloriously useless :)

Re: Running 9front on an emulated SGI Indy via MAME

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Post by Baldbvrhunter » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 10:27 AM UTC

calvinmorrison wrote: post #3

MrBuddyCasino wrote: post #2

Fyi, 9front is a Plan9 fork.

9front is _the_ plan9 fork. The only one with an active contributor team, new software being written for it etc. Though its a fairly loosely coupled open source community where people tend to pull in patches and run their own stuff anyway. If you are interested in 9, look at 9 front

cinap once asked me

"how did you not go insane working from home?"

"who says I didn't" came my reply

that was back in the days before video calls.

Re: Running 9front on an emulated SGI Indy via MAME

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Post by aap_ » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 10:45 AM UTC

odc wrote: post #4

Gloriously useless :)

The indy kernel is (or was?) the only big endian kernel of 9front, which is a useful thing to have.

Re: Running 9front on an emulated SGI Indy via MAME

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Post by carlsagat » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 12:04 PM UTC

It's a plan9 system. I know this! ^_^

Re: Running 9front on an emulated SGI Indy via MAME

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Post by azalemeth » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 1:02 PM UTC

This is great to see -- I used to have an SGI Indy/O2 (I think!) The last time I looked there were no comment Irix emulators out there. Somewhere I've still got a giant load of CDs of Irix 6.2 and some rather niche scientific software, now perpetually licensed abandonware, mostly related to medical imaging or crystallography. I think it's hard to appreciate just got unique the platform was in its time, and it found lots of high end uses, from video editing and computer graphics to science.

It's also a bit like Mac OS 9 and CDE had a hybrid child. Somewhere there's an alternative timeline in which it took over and the world had OS X about ten years earlier than it actually did.

Re: Running 9front on an emulated SGI Indy via MAME

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Post by BSDobelix » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 1:30 PM UTC

calvinmorrison wrote: post #3

MrBuddyCasino wrote: post #2

Fyi, 9front is a Plan9 fork.

9front is _the_ plan9 fork. The only one with an active contributor team, new software being written for it etc. Though its a fairly loosely coupled open source community where people tend to pull in patches and run their own stuff anyway. If you are interested in 9, look at 9 front

That's not completely true, there is also 9legacy (http://9legacy.org/index.html) but yeah one is living the other one in ~maintenance-mode.

Re: Running 9front on an emulated SGI Indy via MAME

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Post by TehCorwiz » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 2:10 PM UTC

azalemeth wrote: post #8

This is great to see -- I used to have an SGI Indy/O2 (I think!) The last time I looked there were no comment Irix emulators out there. Somewhere I've still got a giant load of CDs of Irix 6.2 and some rather niche scientific software, now perpetually licensed abandonware, mostly related to medical imaging or crystallography. I think it's hard to appreciate just got unique the platform was in its time, and it found l…

Is that software preserved anywhere like Archive.org?