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Krokodil
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Wrote the following at Oct. 20, 2015, 5:16 p.m...
Guess we no longer have any use for the new SGI then.
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uunix
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Wrote the following at Oct. 20, 2015, 5:21 p.m...
IRIX is dead... Long live the CHAN!!!
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Krokodil avatar
Krokodil
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Wrote the following at Oct. 21, 2015, 9:36 a.m...
Does that mean that they have unofficially released IRIX into our care? :)
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:Octane: Octane - (Montrealais) - R12K - 2*360MHZ - 1024MB RAM - EMXI. - 6.5.30
Alphaserver DS10 - (Vandoc) - EV6 - 466MHZ - 256MB RAM
Sun Ultra 5 - (Quedoc) - UltraSparc II - 400MHZ - 512MB RAM
ASUS K55VD - (Mapleglen)- I5 - Dual Core 2.5GHZ - 8 GB RAM
Dell L502X - (Algorail) - I7 - Quad Core 2GHZ - 6 GB RAM
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uunix
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Wrote the following at Oct. 21, 2015, 10:20 a.m...
Maybe they are working on a new version? Backwards compatible..
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Kumba
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Wrote the following at Nov. 26, 2015, 8:50 p.m...
uunix wrote: Maybe they are working on a new version? Backwards compatible..

I predict that the release of NetWare 7.0 will happen before this.
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robespierre
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Who joined Sept. 12, 2011, 2:28 p.m.
Wrote the following at Nov. 27, 2015, 8:43 a.m...
Techpubs seems to have already removed its IRIX 6.2 and 5.3 section. Are those backed up somewhere?
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vishnu
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Wrote the following at Nov. 27, 2015, 9:05 a.m...
robespierre wrote: Techpubs seems to have already removed its IRIX 6.2 and 5.3 section. Are those backed up somewhere?

I'm sure they've got a backup of it, that they will never in a million years release to the public... :|
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jan-jaap
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Wrote the following at Nov. 27, 2015, 9:19 a.m...
robespierre wrote: Techpubs seems to have already removed its IRIX 6.2 and 5.3 section. Are those backed up somewhere?

Removed from the index page, but content is still there: IRIX 5.3 , IRIX 6.2 , IRIX 6.3 and IRIX 6.4 .

I have backups of the manual PDFs and tar.gz files, but not the manpages. But if you wanted to ressurrect that, you would use the actual manpages from an IRIX dist + some man2html gateway.
To accentuate the special identity of the IRIS 4D/70, Silicon Graphics' designers selected a new color palette. The machine's coating blends dark grey, raspberry and beige colors into a pleasing harmony. ( IRIS 4D/70 Superworkstation Technical Report )
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jan-jaap
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Wrote the following at Dec. 7, 2015, 2:20 a.m...
Seems the end is near this time:
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To accentuate the special identity of the IRIS 4D/70, Silicon Graphics' designers selected a new color palette. The machine's coating blends dark grey, raspberry and beige colors into a pleasing harmony. ( IRIS 4D/70 Superworkstation Technical Report )
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Trippynet
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Wrote the following at Dec. 7, 2015, 2:31 a.m...
Not encouraging. Just to check, do we have an online mirror of this that can be easily accessed in case the plug is pulled completely?
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Wrote the following at Dec. 7, 2015, 2:58 a.m...
Whoa, that does seem like a restructuring/slimming-down of the techpubs site.
How should we do this? It is no use for dozens of people to hammer the site, since we don't know for sure if the new page will host the old stuff.

I have a copy anno 2005 with IRIX 5.3/6.2/6.3/6.4/6.5. That is about 1 GB. Jan-Jaap, how big is the current techpubs IRIX stuff?
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jan-jaap
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Wrote the following at Dec. 7, 2015, 3:50 a.m...
dexter1 wrote: Jan-Jaap, how big is the current techpubs IRIX stuff?

I have:

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204M    manuals_0530
366M    manuals_0620
411M    manuals_0630
466M    manuals_0640
1.3G    manuals_0650
3.1G    manuals_hdwr
1.6G    manuals_linux
276M    manuals_nt
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7.7GB


If manuals are available as PDF and .tar.gz, I have both. Some manuals show up under more than one category (and are hard linked on my server) so total disk space is a fraction less.

Maybe bitsavers can play a role here? I guess I could handle the data volume but I have some doubts about making some 3800+ PDFs with ominous copyright statements available on my FTP server. They have more experience with that.

NB: newest additions, last half year or so:

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-rw-r--r-- 3 janjaap users  1891834 Nov 20 20:42 ./manuals_linux/5000/007-5618-010/pdf/007-5618-010.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 3 janjaap users  1171535 Nov 20 20:25 ./manuals_linux/4000/007-4003-033/pdf/007-4003-033.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 3 janjaap users  1567317 Nov 20 20:13 ./manuals_linux/5000/007-5619-010/pdf/007-5619-010.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 3 janjaap users  1181614 Nov 20 20:07 ./manuals_linux/5000/007-5617-012/pdf/007-5617-012.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 3 janjaap users   288792 Nov 20 19:44 ./manuals_linux/4000/007-4273-007/pdf/007-4273-007.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 3 janjaap users  3984536 Nov 20 19:42 ./manuals_linux/5000/007-5484-016/pdf/007-5484-016.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 2 janjaap users  2133609 Nov  4 19:16 ./manuals_linux/5000/007-5948-007/pdf/007-5948-007.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 2 janjaap users   577096 Nov  4 19:09 ./manuals_linux/6000/007-6361-003/pdf/007-6361-003.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 2 janjaap users   406210 Nov  4 19:03 ./manuals_linux/3000/007-3773-027/pdf/007-3773-027.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 2 janjaap users  1677215 Nov  4 18:53 ./manuals_linux/6000/007-6359-006/pdf/007-6359-006.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 2 janjaap users   345678 Nov  4 18:51 ./manuals_linux/5000/007-5646-009/pdf/007-5646-009.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 2 janjaap users  1068819 Nov  4 18:22 ./manuals_linux/6000/007-6358-006/pdf/007-6358-006.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 2 janjaap users   474850 Nov  4 18:21 ./manuals_linux/4000/007-4746-023/pdf/007-4746-023.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 2 janjaap users   288586 Sep 30 17:49 ./manuals_linux/6000/007-6424-001/pdf/007-6424-001.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 2 janjaap users  1803220 Sep  2 18:23 ./manuals_linux/6000/007-6359-005/pdf/007-6359-005.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 2 janjaap users  1046062 Sep  2 17:52 ./manuals_linux/6000/007-6358-005/pdf/007-6358-005.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 3 janjaap users  1888947 Jul 29 19:28 ./manuals_linux/5000/007-5618-009/pdf/007-5618-009.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 2 janjaap users  1799287 Jul 29 19:03 ./manuals_linux/6000/007-6359-004/pdf/007-6359-004.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 3 janjaap users  1568135 Jul 29 18:59 ./manuals_linux/5000/007-5619-009/pdf/007-5619-009.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 3 janjaap users  1139268 Jul 29 18:54 ./manuals_linux/5000/007-5617-011/pdf/007-5617-011.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 2 janjaap users  1046614 Jul 29 18:30 ./manuals_linux/6000/007-6358-004/pdf/007-6358-004.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 3 janjaap users  3914787 Jul 29 18:30 ./manuals_linux/5000/007-5484-015/pdf/007-5484-015.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 3 janjaap users   185147 Jul 29 18:28 ./manuals_linux/6000/007-6413-001/pdf/007-6413-001.pdf
To accentuate the special identity of the IRIS 4D/70, Silicon Graphics' designers selected a new color palette. The machine's coating blends dark grey, raspberry and beige colors into a pleasing harmony. ( IRIS 4D/70 Superworkstation Technical Report )
dexter1 avatar
dexter1
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From Zoetermeer, The Netherlands
Who joined Feb. 20, 2003, 6:57 a.m.
Wrote the following at Dec. 7, 2015, 7:28 a.m...
Hm, i went ahead and did the techpubs download today. All categories, minus the windows/nt section. I did all the download using your old script with some minor modifications (added *.tgz) and addition of the linux stuff. So my total is:

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> du -sk techpubs.sgi.com/
2324068   techpubs.sgi.com/

That's quite a bit less than what i expected from your tally. Any chance that the duplicate files on your server can account for this? Or did you do a -m in wget?

EDIT: i am missing IRIX 5.3 , 6.2 and 6.3 in my download. That explains atleast partially the difference...

NOTE: i am going to redo it with added FAQ and relnotes. The manpages as you say are redundant since they are included in the OS distribution media anyway.
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foetz
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Wrote the following at Dec. 20, 2015, 1:54 a.m...
i checked the new pages and couldn't find any remains of the irix stuff. anyone who wants to mirror something, it's now or never
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kokoboi
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Wrote the following at Dec. 27, 2015, 12:31 a.m...
I'm making a complete mirror of techpubs website, so far I downloaded 22GB
"Look on wife/girlfriends/parents face when you drag all this stuff(IRIS CRIMSON, ONYX, ONYX2, ORIGIN 2000 ,etc.) home.... Priceless! ;) "
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jan-jaap
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Wrote the following at Dec. 27, 2015, 1:45 a.m...
kokoboi wrote: I'm making a complete mirror of techpubs website, so far I downloaded 22GB

Did you simply point 'wget' at it and are you downloading endless amounts of cgi generated html?
Best I can tell there's about 6.1GB worth of unique PDFs and .tar.gz files on Techpubs (some files are listed in multiple sections).

NB: latest and only addition since late November was this one:

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007-6410-002    SGI Foundation Software (SFS) User Guide

on December 22nd. In the category 'Linux'.
To accentuate the special identity of the IRIS 4D/70, Silicon Graphics' designers selected a new color palette. The machine's coating blends dark grey, raspberry and beige colors into a pleasing harmony. ( IRIS 4D/70 Superworkstation Technical Report )
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kokoboi
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Wrote the following at Dec. 27, 2015, 6:25 a.m...
jan-jaap wrote:
kokoboi wrote: I'm making a complete mirror of techpubs website, so far I downloaded 22GB

Did you simply point 'wget' at it and are you downloading endless amounts of cgi generated html?
Best I can tell there's about 6.1GB worth of unique PDFs and .tar.gz files on Techpubs (some files are listed in multiple sections).

First I've used your bash script which has downloaded 1230 uniq pdfs and 750 uniq tgz files. Now I'm downloading(more than 2days already) the whole website with wget, so far I got 2280 uniq pdfs, size of 4gb and the uniq .tgz files are 1132, size 670mb.

There are still around 100MB of missing pdfs and 168 .tgz files from go.sh vs wget mirroring. Even if combine them I would reach ~ 5GB.
But the download is still going...
"Look on wife/girlfriends/parents face when you drag all this stuff(IRIS CRIMSON, ONYX, ONYX2, ORIGIN 2000 ,etc.) home.... Priceless! ;) "
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jan-jaap
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Wrote the following at Dec. 27, 2015, 7:38 a.m...
I've got 2553 unique pdf files and 1339 tgz files.
My scripts marked 12 pdfs and 10 tgz files as orphaned, which means I have a local copy but they are no longer on TechPubs.
To accentuate the special identity of the IRIS 4D/70, Silicon Graphics' designers selected a new color palette. The machine's coating blends dark grey, raspberry and beige colors into a pleasing harmony. ( IRIS 4D/70 Superworkstation Technical Report )
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vishnu
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Wrote the following at Dec. 27, 2015, 9:06 a.m...
A million thanks for doing this, you guys are the best! 8-)
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opcode
Who joined Oct. 27, 2006, 10:35 a.m.
Wrote the following at Jan. 29, 2016, 9:13 a.m...
So sad. I have several HPC clusters and I have never heard anyone bring up the letters SGI in any meeting in the last 10 years. I had a dream a couple of months ago where I was installing Onyx XL racks in the data center and was so excited. I didn't want to go to work when I woke up and realized it was just a dream. There just isn't anything exciting about a rack full of Dells....(or Linux). I couldn't imagine how much I would love my job if I had a DC full of Silicon Graphics hardware and was able to use techpubs for support.

Back on topic, I got that same email and thought, "I will never need to log into that site again anyway, I already have 6.5.22".
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