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jeffbee on May 27, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Can SGI’s enthusiast community bring IRIX back to ...

OS nostalgia is stupid but application nostalgia makes sense. If you happen to have applications for IRIX that would be expensive or impossible to replace, then keeping IRIX on life support is reasonable. For example I happen to have a licensed copy of PTC Pro/ENGINEER for IRIX/MIPS. There's no other way to use it. This is the same reason I keep Win2k virtual machines hanging around. That is the only way I can still run my copy of AutoCAD R12.

sys_64738 on May 27, 2023 [–]

> OS nostalgia is stupid

I feel sorry for you if you didn't experience it directly. It was a magical time.

jeffbee on May 27, 2023 | [–]

It's difficult to imagine how you arrived at this conclusion about me after reading my comment.

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