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0 pointsaa-jv1mo ago0 comments

The alternative reality I wish we could move to, across the universe, is the one where SGI were the first to build a titanium laptop and became the worlds #1 Unix laptop vendor ..

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rbanffy1mo ago

I love the IRIX look, but they’d need to update it past the 1990s. It’d look very dated to current audiences.

aa-jvOP1mo ago

NextStep looked pretty dated too, but it went through a nice evolution to bring it up to modern design standards .. if SGI had made that laptop and increased their marketshare I'm pretty sure Irix would've gotten a face-lift.

Anyway, its all about that alternative-universe, where the success of the SGI tiBook has everyone running Irix in their pockets ..

rbanffy1mo ago

When NeXT acquired Apple (for one Steve Jobs, getting $400 million as change) OPENSTEP was not dated - it still looked impressive next to MacOS 9 and Windows. And CDE, of course, but that’s a very low bar.

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rbanffy1mo ago

I love the IRIX look, but they’d need to update it past the 1990s. It’d look very dated to current audiences.

aa-jvOP1mo ago

Anyway, its all about that alternative-universe, where the success of the SGI tiBook has everyone running Irix in their pockets ..

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