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IRIX

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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
Year
1988 2
Significance
Widely used in the 1990s and 2000s in computer animation and scientific visualization 1
Status
Status
Discontinued 1
Classification
License
Proprietary (Closed Source) 1
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 software license|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.
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2. Wikidata: IRIX
  • Wikidata Q627611, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Wikidata Q627611 P571 (inception)
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