IRIX
Operating systemWikipedia
2
MENTIONS
2
EPISODES
2
PODCASTS
Search complete. 2 mentions across 2 episodes found for "IRIX".
Oct 12, 2026
Shahin KhanHOST
It was baked into the OS, it was part of the native directory structure, and it did amazing things, like the OS was able to stop an application, go mount an actual tape cartridge through a robot arm, find the data, and resume execution where it left off.
Shahin KhanHOST
SGI then integrated it into Irix and XFS, but the functionality moved over to the storage side right around when the industry moved to Linux.
Shahin KhanHOST
It all ended up at HPE, which carries it on, though it just announced that DMF has reached end of support and will be phased out in 2028.
Shahin KhanHOST
End of an era, really.
Martin DavidsonGUEST
Unix is good though.
Martin DavidsonGUEST
Unix is, I mean, it's been one of the things I've been playing with is getting all the various different favors of Unix up and running on the old workstations that you and I kind of grew up with, you know, HPUX and IRIX and Solaris and AIX, building the machines for them and then running the operating system.
Martin DavidsonGUEST
And, you know, it's just, I don't know, a bit of nostalgia, I think.
Martin DavidsonGUEST
Yeah.