On Apr 14, 2011, at 12:43 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Thursday, April 14, 2011 02:17:41 PM aurfalien at gmail.com wrote: >> However if you like XFS, I'll assume you liek IRIX so check the 5dwm >> project which is the IRIX desktop for Linux. > > Cool. Now if they ported the Audio DAT ripping program for IRIX to > Linux, I'd be able to get rid of my O2..... (SGI got special DAT > tape drive firmware made by Seagate that can read and write Audio > DAT tapes in a particular Seagate/Archive Python DDS-1 drive; SGI > also put the software wot work with Audio DAT's in IRIX. I use that > program occasionally on my O2, and previously on my Indigo2/IMPACT, > to 'rip' Audio DAT's for my professional audio production side > business.... I can also master to Audio DAT with the same program, > making it quite nice indeed.). Dude, thats killer. I miss the SGI/Irix dayz. Solid hardware/OS for sure. Can you believe that in the early 90s they had market share for desktop Unix boxes. - aurf