New Year's Cleaning

[Tom Buskey]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Benjamin Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
> > I remember seeing a nice Macintosh emulator for Irix once.
>
>   I remember trying to get the IRIX Doom port running on an Indigo,
> just for kicks.  It crashed the system.  I still remember all the
> pretty GUI graphics vanishing in an eye-blink, to be replaced with a
> plain blue text screen (hey, this sounds familiar!) with the message:
>
>        PANIC: KERNEL FAULT
>
> ... and some kind of register dump.  I thought for sure I was gonna be
> fired, but it rebooted okay.  *phew*
>

We ran it too.  And the flight simultor with dogfighting.  Everyone wanted
the Onyx.
Once upon a time there was a usenix post about SGI's transition from Irix
4.x (custom for each cpu/system) to 5.x (universal) and then engineering
issues.  It was a mini "Mythical Man Month" that I haven't been able to find
since.


>
>  Trivia: The original Doom's original map editor (used in-house at id
> Software to build the game) ran only on a Unix-like system.  It was
> either an SGI or NeXT platform, I forget which.  DOS PCs at the time
> barely had enough power to run the game; they couldn't edit it.
>

NeXT.
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