OpenBSD on SGI: A Rollercoaster Story

pjmlp | 10 hours ago

Very interesting story.

I used to regularly visit SGI documentation due to OpenGL/IrisGL, Inventor, and the original HP STL C++ documentation that SGI hosted, and naturally dive into Irix documentation in boring days.

justin66 | 8 hours ago

That was a pretty epic story. I'll admit that I skimmed a few parts. :)

Sad that it's discontinued, but mostly it's remarkable that so much was done by so few people.

fleeno | 5 hours ago

I wish it was still supported, but I'm sure I was one of very few that was actually using it! Even then it was just for fun.

[OP] brynet | 2 hours ago

There is someone on GitHub who's been trying to keep OpenBSD/sgi alive out-of-tree using bits and pieces (e.g: userland binaries) of OpenBSD/octeon, which remains supported.

https://github.com/the-machine-hall/openbsd-sgi

fleeno | an hour ago

Thanks, that looks promising!