IRIX is a discontinued operating system developed by Silicon Graphics (SGI) to run on the company's proprietary MIPS workstations and servers. It is based on UNIX System V with BSD extensions, and both the XFS file system and the now industry standard OpenGL graphics API were originally developed by SGI for IRIX.
Facts
SignificanceWidely used in the 1990s and 2000s in computer animation and scientific visualization 1 Classification
LicenseProprietary (Closed Source) 1 Connections
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Sources
1. Wikipedia: IRIX
Infobox, Initial release
1988
Features
IRIX was widely used for the 1990s and 2000s in the computer animation and scientific visualization industries, due to its large application base and high performance.
Infobox
Proprietary
entity record, description (status)
IRIX is a discontinued operating system developed by Silicon Graphics (SGI) to run on the company's proprietary MIPS workstations and servers.
In Field: Operating Systems, Lead sentence
IRIX (, , a portmanteau of IRIS and UNIX) is a discontinued operating system developed by Silicon Graphics (SGI) to run on the company's proprietary MIPS workstations and servers.
View the Source2. Wikidata: IRIX
- Wikidata Q627611, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata Q627611 P571 (inception)
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