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The Best Graphics In 1994? Exploring Weird Spaces in Lightscape
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ok9U1Y4AgZM

#sgi #cgi #90s #retrocomputing

So if I have a newport graphics board stored it must mean I have upgraded one of my #sgi #indy to something more exotic. Like 15 years ago or so. Can't remember 🙄

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogfind #ncsa #mosaic #ncsamosaic #sun #sparcstation #sgi #unix

Catch of the Day: The Forefather of the World Wide Web! 🏛️🕸️

Hey Retro Fans!

Hold your breath and bow in reverence. Today, our FrogFind radar didn't just catch an old browser; it caught the absolute foundation of the modern internet. Between all the Nintendos and dusty Windows PCs, this gigantic milestone appeared:

NCSA Mosaic 2.7b5 on UNIX (X11)!

For those who weren't online in the early 90s: Mosaic, developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), was the first web browser that could display images inline next to text (rather than in a separate window). Starting in 1993, it was the spark that made the World Wide Web appealing to the masses! The Mosaic team later went on to found Netscape, and even Microsoft's first Internet Explorer was based on licensed Mosaic code.

The fact that today, in 2026, someone boots up a UNIX machine (perhaps an old Sun SPARCstation or an SGI) and navigates our frog pond using the final beta version of NCSA Mosaic (from around 1996) is like operating a working time machine. It proves one thing: True HTML survives decades.

A reverent cheer to the pioneers of the internet!

Your FrogFind Team 🐸

Get ready to falsify! Build 'em up, knock 'em down. Dennis #Ritchie 's words stick in my brain: "Bon Appetit!" #unix #plan9 #usl #svr4 #solaris #osf1 #dynix #hpux #irix #sgi #ultrix #tru64 #sunos #bsdos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook (Linux was not seriously in the running at this snapshot in time.)

Get ready to falsify! Build 'em up, knock 'em down. Dennis #Ritchie 's words stick in my brain: "Bon Appetit!" #unix #plan9 #usl #svr4 #solaris #osf1 #dynix #hpux #irix #sgi #ultrix #tru64 #sunos #bsdos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook (Linux was not seriously in the running at this snapshot in time.)

Get ready to falsify! Build 'em up, knock 'em down. Dennis #Ritchie 's words stick in my brain: "Bon Appetit!" #unix #plan9 #usl #svr4 #solaris #osf1 #dynix #hpux #irix #sgi #ultrix #tru64 #sunos #bsdos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook (Linux was not seriously in the running at this snapshot in time.)

Get ready to falsify! Build 'em up, knock 'em down. Dennis #Ritchie 's words stick in my brain: "Bon Appetit!" #unix #plan9 #usl #svr4 #solaris #osf1 #dynix #hpux #irix #sgi #ultrix #tru64 #sunos #bsdos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook (Linux was not seriously in the running at this snapshot in time.)

Get ready to falsify! Build 'em up, knock 'em down. Dennis #Ritchie 's words stick in my brain: "Bon Appetit!" #unix #plan9 #usl #svr4 #solaris #osf1 #dynix #hpux #irix #sgi #ultrix #tru64 #sunos #bsdos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook (Linux was not seriously in the running at this snapshot in time.)

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogFind #sgi #unix #netscape #navigator #irix

Catch of the Day: The Jurassic Park Workstation! 🦖🖥️

Hey Retro Fans!

Hold on to your UNIX manuals, because today our FrogFind radar detected an absolute Hollywood star in the frog pond. Between the usual handhelds and Windows PCs, this breathtaking identifier suddenly appeared:

Netscape Navigator 4.75C-SGI on SGI IRIX!

For those who weren't in IT in the 90s: SGI stands for Silicon Graphics Inc. and IRIX was their proprietary UNIX operating system. SGI workstations (like the legendary Indigo2 or O2) were incredibly expensive, highly specialized graphics monsters. It was on exactly these machines that the dinosaurs for Jurassic Park, the liquid Terminator in T2, and even the hardware architecture for the Nintendo 64 were developed!

The fact that these Hollywood heavyweights came with their own specially customized version of the Netscape Navigator (the "C-SGI" at the end) straight from the manufacturer was standard back then. The fact that today, over 25 years later, a retro enthusiast boots up one of these UNIX legends, loads the IRIX OS, and surfs through our frog pond using the original SGI Netscape is retro computing at the absolute highest level.

Cheers to the Silicon Graphics workstations—may your MIPS processors calculate forever!

Your FrogFind Team 🐸

Newport Graphics it is. #sgi #silicongraphics #retrohardware

Seems I have #sgi #indy #newport graphics card laying around. Wonder why ?

I found this guy selling 2 working #SGI Octane2’s.

I was tempted.

@flexion if you want to get in touch with this guy, he has several other SGI’s back home he’s looking to sell!

Since I am on an accidental #nostalgia (naustalgia?) trip in trying to find old #MUD things, this one popped up on my Facebook feed which may amuse the #RetroComputing #VAX #VMS and #History of the #Internet folks.

This was UKNet's office in about 1994-1995

I think there are some #SUN and #SGI machines in there too, there definitely were somewhere.

#HashtagAbuse

Since I am on an accidental #nostalgia (naustalgia?) trip in trying to find old #MUD things, this one popped up on my Facebook feed which may amuse the #RetroComputing #VAX #VMS and #History of the #Internet folks.

This was UKNet's office in about 1994-1995

I think there are some #SUN and #SGI machines in there too, there definitely were somewhere.

#HashtagAbuse

Since I am on an accidental #nostalgia (naustalgia?) trip in trying to find old #MUD things, this one popped up on my Facebook feed which may amuse the #RetroComputing #VAX #VMS and #History of the #Internet folks.

This was UKNet's office in about 1994-1995

I think there are some #SUN and #SGI machines in there too, there definitely were somewhere.

#HashtagAbuse

Since I am on an accidental #nostalgia (naustalgia?) trip in trying to find old #MUD things, this one popped up on my Facebook feed which may amuse the #RetroComputing #VAX #VMS and #History of the #Internet folks.

This was UKNet's office in about 1994-1995

I think there are some #SUN and #SGI machines in there too, there definitely were somewhere.

#HashtagAbuse

Oubliez le RGB. Chez Silicon Graphics, même l'arrière des machines avait du style. Indigo, Teal, Crimson... Ce n'est pas un data center, c'est un nuancier Pantone pour génies de la 3D. 🎨💾

Vous les reconnaissez ?

#Silicium #SGI #VintageWorkstation

@Matthias

Klar wird das was

Das Thema ist ja nicht neu, dieses Buch ist 1999 von einer Werbeagentur entstanden

Damals gabs solche Bücher einfach nicht

#FilmGimp bzw. #CinePaint wurde in vielen Filmen benutzt wie #HarryPotter, #PlanetDerAffen

Namhafte Studios wie #DreamWorks etc steuerten Code bei

Ein Film der zu 100% mit #blender animiert wurde hat schon einen #Oscar gewonnen

Und Blender lief sogar schon auf #AmigaOS 🙈 & auch auf die damals 🐖 teuren #SGI Maschinen von #Hollywood und co

Found an interesting story about the origin of the SGI logo while reading IRIS Universe, Spring 1987 issue..

Puzzle artist Scott Kim designed the Silicon Graphics logo entirely using JAM, a pre-PostScript language from Xerox. He started with a cube, looped a continuous tube around its vertices, rounded the corners, then rotated it so the 2D projection reads as both a hexagonal flower and a 3D object.

@flexion have you seen this?

PDF:
https://ominous.net/IrisUniverse_1983_pg13.pdf

#SGI #UNIX #IRIX #IRIS

Long Shot: Does anyone in New England want to sell a reasonably (not eBay) priced #SGI workstation or #Amiga ?

I’ve wanted one for years for nostalgia + experimentation. Should’ve picked one up back when they were affordable, but life was too busy.

I’m a user/collector — not a reseller — if that makes a difference :)

(I live in Central #Maine)

@holdenweb @cstross @jguillaumes @jlargentaye

Oh, and Andrew McCann was my tutor when I was at Leeds Computational Science, so I assume you knew him fairly well if you were working on SPITBOL.

He was genuinely the only person in that department I got along with, and he was pretty honest with me and told me I should just pack up and leave because it wasn't the right environment for me, personality-wise.

Eventually, he left instead, and I stayed on and slogged through the final year to get a 3rd (the most I could get at that point because I was planning on leaving in my 2nd year and had done nothing, passing my exams was kind of a shock and made me have to rethink). I then got a postgrad placement at Leicester in a place that was the right environment for me, personality-wise.

Amusingly, though, when I left Leicester I went back to Leeds to run systems for another department, and they had to deal with me as a peer. The only person who coped well with that change was Ted Appleby over in Mech Eng. We stayed friends for years, and he gave me a load of SUN, VAX, and SGI stuff for my museum into the early 2000s. These pics were from a 2005 pickup, so he was still there then.

I am going way off topic, but it's an excuse to post pics of old junk :D

#Retrocomputing #museum #SUN #SGI #VAX #LittleIron #Leeds #LeedsUniversity f

I found this ad for a six-degree-of-freedom 3D input device in the Summer 1989 issue of the SGI magazine "IRIS Universe".

I remember seeing stuff like this around in the 90s, but it all seemed so inaccessible at the time. Flipping through these old professional magazines, you spot some interesting engineering and industrial design.

@flexion, you should get one of these, restore it, and get it working on one of your systems.

#SGI #UNIX

I got bored of trying to make AppleTalk sing and dance on Windows NT and 2000 so I switched to an OS with a good native implementation: IRIX. :sgi:​

#GlobalTalk #MARCHintosh #SiliconGraphics #SGI #IRIX #AppleTalk #AUNIXSystemIKnowThis

OpenBSD on SGI: a rollercoaster story, as told by miod@ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260305143943 #openbsd #sgi #silicongraphics #development #hacking #freesoftware #libresoftware

This was a delightful read, tech is still cool from time to time, if you know where to look and no money is involved.

Which is another way of saying, if you have some spare time you could also spend your evening reading a blog post about decompiling Silicon Graphics' PROMs. This is fedi's bread and butter.

https://mattst88.com/blog/2026/02/08/Reverse_Engineering_the_PROM_for_the_SGI_O2/

#SiliconGraphics #SGI #ReverseEngineering

Does anyone else remember wearing one of these in the early to mid 90s?

I only got to wear one once, at Epcot Center. I got the chance to explore some Egyptian tomb and it got me hooked on VR ever since.

#SGI #SiliconGraphics #RealityEngine #RealityEngine2 #EpcotCenter #VirtualReality #VR #90sNostalgia #90s #DisneyWorld #Epcot #Imagineering #Imagineer #SGIOnyx

A maybe slightly more reasonable thing to be doing on my #sgi #indigo2

#retrocomputing #unix #simcity

#Apple has nothing on #SGI from 1995.

#retrocomputing #unix #irix

The majesty of 4dwm.

#sgi #irix #retrocomputing

Now we're getting to the good part of #irix

After the just unacceptably and inexplicably bad install process.

#unix #sgi #retrocomputing

Progress!

#irix #sgi #retrocomputing

Heck yeah!

#irix #sgi #retrocomputing

If you've been following my latest #unix shenanigans you might have noticed that I've talked about #solaris, #aix, and #hpux but what about #irix ?!

Well today it is #sgi day. Irix is the only proprietary Unix I've ever actually used day to day, I'm wondering how familiar it'll be once installed.

#retrocomputing

A ghost between the ghosts!

#sgi #indy #pvm #kiro #retrocomputing

Es soll eine neue #Stargate Serie geben. Bin schon gespannt wie das wird. #SG-1, #SGA #SGI fand ich super. Mit #SGU bin ich nie warm geworden.
Vielversprechend: Die original Showrunner sind mit dabei.

https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/tv-movies/stargate-is-coming-back-to-tv-thanks-to-prime-video-200049713.html

Computerworld wrote in June 1993, “it was #Unix workstations and object-oriented software programs that helped breathe life into the dinosaurs". Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) used #SGI workstations running software such as Softimage, along with proprietary #ILM tools, to create the film’s groundbreaking computer-generated dinosaur effects.
Via unix_byte
http://www.sgistuff.net/hardware/systems/crimson.html

http://www.sgidepot.co.uk/crimson.html

@aka_pugs never worked for them but #SUNW was a relatively good corporate egg with interesting products. As was #SGI. They perish, but we get to keep #ORCL and #HPE. #enshitification

@aka_pugs never worked for them but #SUNW was a relatively good corporate egg with interesting products. As was #SGI. They perish, but we get to keep #ORCL and #HPE. #enshitification

@aka_pugs never worked for them but #SUNW was a relatively good corporate egg with interesting products. As was #SGI. They perish, but we get to keep #ORCL and #HPE. #enshitification

@aka_pugs never worked for them but #SUNW was a relatively good corporate egg with interesting products. As was #SGI. They perish, but we get to keep #ORCL and #HPE. #enshitification

@aka_pugs never worked for them but #SUNW was a relatively good corporate egg with interesting products. As was #SGI. They perish, but we get to keep #ORCL and #HPE. #enshitification

Repórter Retro 113

https://retropolis.com.br/2025/04/30/reporter-retro-113/

#ReprterRetro #AdrianBlack #AppleIIe #Arcade #Asteroids #Atari8bits #Centurion #DiscoRgido #disquete #DNS #DriveDeDisquete #EncontroDeUsurios #FitaDAT #fliperama #HomebrewComputerClub #IBM #Intel8080 #internet #KariLawler #LeeFelsenstein #LISP #microNOVA #microsoft #MicrosoftBob #MPI #MSDOS #MSXRio #PCAT #PhintageCollector #Radio86RK #Retrocomputo #RetroRio #RioRetroGames #SGI #TechTangents #TheCluelessEngineer #Ti

@Perl After reading https://doi.org/10.1145/3386327, I’m imagining an alternate #WebDev history where #Netscape hired #LarryWall instead of @BrendanEich. (The latter previously worked for co-founder Jim Clark at #SGI, so as always it’s who you know.)

No, I don't think we would have #Perl in our web browsers (and possibly everywhere else). But #JavaScript might have started less #Self-ish and a little more Perl-ish.

@Perl After reading https://doi.org/10.1145/3386327, I’m imagining an alternate #WebDev history where #Netscape hired #LarryWall instead of @BrendanEich. (The latter previously worked for co-founder Jim Clark at #SGI, so as always it’s who you know.)

No, I don't think we would have #Perl in our web browsers (and possibly everywhere else). But #JavaScript might have started less #Self-ish and a little more Perl-ish.

Episódio 142 – Parte A

https://retropolis.com.br/2023/06/14/episodio-142-parte-a/

#Podcast #386BSD #A/UX #AIX #AlanCox #AlfredoKojima #Amiga #Android #Apple #AT&T #atarist #Be #BellLabs #BeOS #BSD #BSDi #CDE #Conectiva #COSE #DavidKorn #DEC #DennisRitchie #Desqview/X #dos #DOSEMU #dr-dos #Fuzix #GNU #HP/UX #IBM #IEEE #Intergraph #iOS #IPX #IRIX #ksh #LinusTorvalds #Linux #Lotus1-2-3 #Mach #Macintosh #MacOS #Motif #MPI #MUD #NeXT #NEXTSTEP #Novell #OpenLook #OSF #Pixar #POSIX #PVM #SCO #SGI

In case you wonder how we programmed our stuff in #C++ on #SGI IRIX: We actually avoided #IRISPerformer after 1995.

For many applications, we used a #3DGraphicsFramework called #VTK on top of #GL and later #OpenGL.