Woodruff: Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with

Posted Mar 2, 2021 15:38 UTC (Tue) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: Woodruff: Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with by farnz
Parent article: Woodruff: Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with

> there's a surprisingly vibrant IRIX hobbyist base

Interesting. CMake dropped support for IRIX years ago (because we don't have anything to test with). Are they just using an old CMake version, only using software from that era, or doing everything with CMake-less projects (possible, but more likely a result of not updating software stacks I'd imagine)?

Woodruff: Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with

Posted Mar 3, 2021 9:14 UTC (Wed) by farnz (subscriber, #17727) [Link] (1 responses)

Mostly running period-appropriate software on them, and either fixing things locally or not using modern software.

The systems involved tend not to be internet-connected because of this - the risk of running IRIX 6.5 on today's Internet is not worth taking.

Woodruff: Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with

Posted Mar 4, 2021 22:22 UTC (Thu) by ejr (subscriber, #51652) [Link]

It wasn't worth taking that risk then, either. xauth + at boot...