OpenBSD on SGI: A Rollercoaster Story
78 points by brynet 18 hours ago | 5 comments

justin66 10 hours ago
That was a pretty epic story. I'll admit that I skimmed a few parts. :)

Sad that it's discontinued, but mostly it's remarkable that so much was done by so few people.

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fleeno 7 hours ago
I wish it was still supported, but I'm sure I was one of very few that was actually using it! Even then it was just for fun.
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brynet 4 hours ago
There is someone on GitHub who's been trying to keep OpenBSD/sgi alive out-of-tree using bits and pieces (e.g: userland binaries) of OpenBSD/octeon, which remains supported.

https://github.com/the-machine-hall/openbsd-sgi

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fleeno 3 hours ago
Thanks, that looks promising!
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pjmlp 12 hours ago
Very interesting story.

I used to regularly visit SGI documentation due to OpenGL/IrisGL, Inventor, and the original HP STL C++ documentation that SGI hosted, and naturally dive into Irix documentation in boring days.

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