IRIX
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IRIX (/ˈaɪrɪks/ EYE-ricks) 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. In IRIX, SGI originated the XFS file system and the industry-standard OpenGL graphics system.
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Developer | Silicon Graphics |
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OS family | Unix (SVR3/SVR4) |
Working state | Historic as of December 2013[1] |
Source model | Closed source |
Initial release | 1988; 36 years ago (1988) |
Final release | 6.5.30 / 16 August 2006; 17 years ago (2006-08-16) |
Marketing target | Workstations, servers |
Platforms | MIPS |
Kernel type | Monolithic kernel |
Userland | POSIX |
Default user interface | IRIX Interactive Desktop |
License | Proprietary |
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