IRIX and Software

Anyone remember which was the last IRIX release presenting photo of a computer it runs on in System Manager?

5.3 definitely did this:

Maybe 6.2 too?

I know that at least with 6.5.0 it started to look boring:


Thanks for the answer!

I think IRIX 6.3 introduced the 'new' System Manager. Which make 6.2 the last with the old one.

jan-jaap wrote: I think IRIX 6.3 introduced the 'new' System Manager. Which make 6.2 the last with the old one.

I think the graphics of the newer system manager also changed about 6.5.15 ? Originally it was sort of a Victorian look, then it went more colorful and less formal. But they didn't change anything else to match, so the interface became sort of a mish-mash

hamei wrote: I think the graphics of the newer system manager also changed about 6.5.15 ? Originally it was sort of a Victorian look, then it went more colorful and less formal. But they didn't change anything else to match, so the interface became sort of a mish-mash

I think under the hood it's just an HTML widget, so changing the look probably wasn't too hard

Originally it looked like this: http://www.sgistuff.net/software/irixin ... 5-img3.gif

Gotta love the backwards "y" - probably the worst thing in the whole SGI font. What were they thinking? Yes, it "matches" the G better, but there's a big market difference between SGI and Toys R' Us.

BTW, forgot that there was also a cool CPU dialog here

hamei wrote:

jan-jaap wrote: I think the graphics of the newer system manager also changed about 6.5.15 ?

Yep. Noticed this after 6.5.0 -> 6.5.22 update.

dukzcry wrote: Maybe 6.2 too?

yes, the one you're looking for has been introduced with irix 5 and shipped with 6.2 for the last time.

I know that at least with 6.5.0 it started to look boring:

yes the 6.5.0 system manager looks different but this screen shot doesn't show 6.5.0

foetz wrote: but this screen shot doesn't show 6.5.0

Ok, replaced it with the screen provided by jan-jaap

SAQ wrote: Gotta love the backwards "y" - probably the worst thing in the whole SGI font. What were they thinking? Yes, it "matches" the G better, but there's a big market difference between SGI and Toys R' Us.

I'm not sure what makes you think the "y" is backwards...?

kjaer wrote:

SAQ wrote: Gotta love the backwards "y" - probably the worst thing in the whole SGI font. What were they thinking? Yes, it "matches" the G better, but there's a big market difference between SGI and Toys R' Us.

I'm not sure what makes you think the "y" is backwards...?

Don't have a SGI with me right now, but I'm pretty sure that in the "new new" System Manager with the "SGI font" (6.5.14+) the y in System has the tail pointing to the right.

SAQ wrote: Don't have a SGI with me right now, but I'm pretty sure that in the "new new" System Manager with the "SGI font" (6.5.14+) the y in System has the tail pointing to the right.

I never noticed, but it looks like this:

Looks like they were trying to be clever and turn the Y into a rotated lambda?

That's giving them too much credit... that was simply the "new corporate font" they commissioned from Ideo in 1999.

Ah.

Yikes. I hadn't seen that before; that is indeed awful.