SGI: Discussion

Why did SGI use VxWorks???

Nihilus
From Stockholm, Sweden
Who joined Dec. 18, 2004, 8:21 a.m.

Wrote the following at March 12, 2015, 5:09 p.m...

Nowadays it id a well-known facts for enthusiastic SGI lovers that they used VxWorks (and even x86) for some works in their IRIX(!) development.

Does anyone have a rational description/idea why it was so?

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R-ten-K
From Nor Cal
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Wrote the following at March 13, 2015, 5:49 p.m...

As far as I know, the relationship between Irix and vxWorks is that back in the day Irix was supported as a development platform/environment targeting VxWorks/MIPS embedded systems, since the MIPS Pro compilers produced compatible (with VxWorks/MIPS) exe objects.

If SGI used VxWorks internally in any capacity themselves, it was probably for the embedded parts of their HW. Stuff like the system controllers and what not.

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