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7 February 2025
- 03:2003:20, 7 February 2025 diff hist +2,579 N Challenge S Created page with "The Challenge S is the server variant of the Indy workstation, utilizing the same basic hardware. It has some minor differences that make it different from the Indy in terms of hardware support, but is structurally similar. === Features === The Challenge S is a small desktop (dimensions 41 x 36 x 8 centimetres) server with a slightly darker case compared to the Indy. Inside the hardware is nearly identical: power supplies; processor modules; hard disks; memory; and GIO3..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 03:1203:12, 7 February 2025 diff hist +7,026 N Indy Created page with "thumb|500x500px|SGI Indy owned by CB_HK The Indy, code-named "Guinness", is one of the low-end workstations by Silicon Graphics. Selling for around $5000 USD at base price it was one of the cheaper models. It is notable for its common-ness, comparable to the Amiga 500 for Amigas, and its use in development for the Nintendo 64. It was introduced on July 12, 1993 and discontinued on June 30, 1997. === Features === The Indy is a small desktop (dimensio..." Tag: Visual edit
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- 03:0903:09, 7 February 2025 diff hist +5,105 N Crimson Created page with "The IRIS Crimson or simply Crimson is the successor to the Power Series, first released in 1992. It was the first SGI workstation released with a 64-bit processor. thumb|A typical IRIS Crimson The Crimson was a member of Silicon Graphics' IRIS 4D series of deskside systems; it was also known as the 4D/510 workstation. It was similar to other SGI IRIS 4D deskside workstations, and could utilize a wide range of graphics options (up to RealityEngin..." Tag: Visual edit
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- 02:5402:54, 7 February 2025 diff hist +5,557 N IRIS Indigo Initial Commit Tag: Visual edit
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5 February 2025
- 19:1219:12, 5 February 2025 diff hist +8,282 N Gentoo Prefix-Portage for IRIX Created page with "On Nekochan in 2009, user Stuart posted that he had gotten Gentoo Prefix, a type of Portage port to other systems, working on IRIX. This article is an archive/documentation of that effort. Due to the 12-year gap from the time of writing this adaptation of his methods, this article is posted without warranty or guarantees. === History === Stuart posted on his initial post that he had quit working on pkgsrc (a NetBSD project) for the following reasons: * The build proces..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 19:0919:09, 5 February 2025 diff hist +5,307 N Transporting SGIs Created page with "This page is a list of user/crowd sourced notes on how to transport various systems. This page is free to be edited, as long as preexisting content is not removed without notification of a staff member. === Onyx === The Onyx was available in two form factors, known as the Deskside (codename ''Eveready'') and the Rack (codename ''Terminator'', sometimes referred to as the Rackmount or, rarely, Rackside). While both systems are large computers, the Rack is significantly l..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 19:0919:09, 5 February 2025 diff hist +1,749 N SSH Setup for 6.5 Created page with "For years, SSH has been a pain under IRIX. However, with a recent port of Dropbear, an embedded, secure, and lightweight SSH server and client implementation for IRIX, it is now possible to have reasonably fast SSH usage under IRIX. === What is Dropbear? === Dropbear is an OpenSSH alternative, in a word. OpenSSH is a great product, but it does have its downsides. Recent versions are hard to setup under IRIX as it wants security features more and more that are difficult..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 19:0719:07, 5 February 2025 diff hist +383 N Swap Created page with "Just like on some other UNIX systems, IRIX can use swap. This article explains how to enable swapfiles for more swap. === General Procedure === <pre> # mkfile -v 2048m /usr/swap /usr/swap 2147483648 bytes # swap -a /usr/swap </pre>This will enable the file immediately. To ensure it works next boot add the following line to /etc/fstab: <code>/usr/swap swap swap pri=3 0 0</code>" current Tag: Visual edit
- 19:0719:07, 5 February 2025 diff hist +2,542 N NFS Created page with "NFS or Networked File System is a protocol used to share filesystems over a network. IRIX includes support for NFSv2 and NFSv3. === Hosting NFS === '''NFSv2 and NFSv3 have known security problems and exploits. It's highly advised to use a proper firewall and configuration.''' NFS can be hosted from IRIX, BSD, Solaris/illumos, Linux or even some versions of macOS and still retain compatibility to IRIX. This page documents related issues with NFSv3/2 and the various quir..." Tag: Visual edit
- 19:0319:03, 5 February 2025 diff hist +1,905 N Inst Created page with "inst is the package and installation utility on IRIX, and is supplemented by swmgr, an graphical frontend (the relationship is similar to aptitude and synaptic) to the command line. inst is used for installing and uninstalling programs, applying patches and more. === General Operations === inst can be started from within IRIX by typing "inst" as root to access the full menu, but it can be run as a user, but it will be read-only. Entries in inst are numbers and accessi..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 19:0119:01, 5 February 2025 diff hist +4,232 N Toolchain Created page with "The toolchest program is the IRIX equivalent of a Start menu or a "dock". The standard set of menu buttons in the IRIX Interactive Desktop toolchest is Desktop, Selected, Find, System, and Help. === Change the Toolchest Display === The following flags can be used to change the behavior/look of the toolchest: - horizontal - The toolchest will display horizontally instead of vertically. - vertical - The toolchest will display vertically. This is the default. - decal -..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 18:5818:58, 5 February 2025 diff hist +974 N L1 Controller Created page with "All of the systems based on the Chimera architecture (Fuel, Origin 3000, Onyx4, Origin/Onyx 3x0, Tezro) include a low-level hardware monitor, power management and startup/shutdown system called the L1 controller. This system does many things that earlier systems either lacked the capability of doing, or had a separate system that performed those functions, including holding serial numbers and configuring NUMA access. === Power commands === To start an L1 equipped SGI, t..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 18:5818:58, 5 February 2025 diff hist +1,999 N ARCS Created page with "ARCS is the name for the firmware used by SGI machines to boot an IRIX kernel and store important NVRAM variables. It's also commonly called in common parlance the '''PROM''' by users, though this generally refers to the physical chip storing ARCS. === Capabilities === ARCS is a fully graphical firmware that has basic understanding of TCP/IP (though it can't ping/trace and has no understanding of routes. It only knows TFTP and RSH commands enough to boot a kernel or app..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 18:5718:57, 5 February 2025 diff hist +709 N EFS Initial Tag: Visual edit
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- 18:2118:21, 5 February 2025 diff hist +6,666 N LTO Drives Initial Tag: Visual edit
- 18:1518:15, 5 February 2025 diff hist +503 N Neweoe Initial current Tag: Visual edit
- 18:1018:10, 5 February 2025 diff hist +1,230 N Libxg Initial Commit current Tag: Visual edit
- 18:0818:08, 5 February 2025 diff hist +1,935 N Porting Issues Initial current Tag: Visual edit
- 18:0718:07, 5 February 2025 diff hist +4,087 N IRIX Initial Commit current Tag: Visual edit
- 18:0618:06, 5 February 2025 diff hist +875 N IRIXNet Initial Commit Tag: Visual edit
- 17:0517:05, 5 February 2025 diff hist +1,785 N Nekochan.net Initial Commit current Tag: Visual edit
- 16:5816:58, 5 February 2025 diff hist +4,767 N Personal IRIS Wiki Import Tag: Visual edit
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- 04:4704:47, 5 February 2025 diff hist +1,914 N Professional IRIS Wiki Import Tag: Visual edit
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- 04:4204:42, 5 February 2025 diff hist −8 Main Page →Hardware
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- 04:1504:15, 5 February 2025 diff hist +805 N Installing IRIX Wiki Import Tag: Visual edit
4 February 2025
- 19:5919:59, 4 February 2025 diff hist +5,284 N IRIX 101 Wiki Import Tag: Visual edit
- 19:5719:57, 4 February 2025 diff hist +5,773 N Upgrading O2 from R5-7k to R10-12k Wiki Import current Tag: Visual edit
- 19:5619:56, 4 February 2025 diff hist +3,897 N Network Setup Created page with "IRIX unlike modern Linux distros, Windows and macOS necessitates some level of manual configuration. Some of the tasks here can be accomplished via the GUI, but it is valuable to understand the networking stack in IRIX. === Major Components === IRIX's network stack consists of several components: * inetd - This not only controls the major network services, like telnet and rlogind, it also controls the network and updates to the network necessitate restarts of inetd. *..." Tag: Visual edit
- 19:5419:54, 4 February 2025 diff hist +1,999 N Keeping Time Created page with "Keeping time on IRIX is an easy to do, but less-than well documented thing. This article aims to educate users on the best ways to synchronize, keep time and manage it appropriately. === UNIX Date and Time === IRIX, like all System V UNIX releases, centers around the <code>date</code> command for timekeeping purposes. Date can set the time, tell the time, and format time in various fashions, down to the second (a limitation of the UNIX time() syscall). Examples can be f..." Tag: Visual edit
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- 19:5219:52, 4 February 2025 diff hist +3,189 N Setting Backgrounds Created page with "IRIX supports out of the box on both 6.5 and pre-6.5 versions customized backgrounds. The procedure varies from version to version, however, as 6.5.22+ supports modern image formats, while versions prior do not. === Preliminary Steps === Enabling 24-bit X is a major requirement. IRIX Setup 101 has a section on this. Next, copy the backgrounds configuration file. <code>% cp /usr/lib/X11/system.backgrounds ~/.backgrounds</code> ==== Using XPM files (Most versions of IRI..." Tag: Visual edit
- 19:4919:49, 4 February 2025 diff hist +12,417 N IRIX Setup 101 Wiki Import Tag: Visual edit
- 19:4419:44, 4 February 2025 diff hist +9,432 N IRIX Install using NetBSD Host Wiki Import current Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 19:3619:36, 4 February 2025 diff hist +5,888 N IRIX Install using IRIX Host Created page with "This article describes the installation of IRIX 6.5.30 on an SGI Fuel. The installation is performed over a local network (LAN), using a SGI Indy workstation as installation server. The main focus of this article is to demonstrate the feature of driving inst using a pre-written command file instead of manually performing all needed software selection steps. Although the example specifically describes an IRIX 6.5.30 installation, the demonstrated methods will work with an..." current Tag: Visual edit
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- 19:3119:31, 4 February 2025 diff hist +2,043 N Style Guide Initial Tag: Visual edit
- 19:2619:26, 4 February 2025 diff hist +13,203 N MIPSPro Wiki Import Tag: Visual edit: Switched
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- 05:1105:11, 4 February 2025 diff hist +38,969 N MediaWiki:Common.css Created page with "→Prevent line breaks in silly places: 1) Links when we don't want them to 2) Bold "links" to the page itself 2) HTML formulae 3) Ref tags with group names <ref group="Note"> --> "[Note 1]": →Wikipedia CSS: →<source lang="css">: →Main page fixes: #interwiki-completelist { font-weight: bold; } div#content .printfooter { display: none; } .page-Touhou_Wiki h1.firstHeading { display: none; } .page-Touhou_Wiki div#siteNotice {..." current