IRIX

IRIX (/ˈrɪks/ EYE-ricks) is a discontinued operating system developed by Silicon Graphics (SGI) to run on the company's proprietary MIPS workstations and servers. It is based on UNIX System V with BSD extensions. In IRIX, SGI originated the XFS file system and the industry-standard OpenGL graphics system.

IRIX
IRIX 6.5 Desktop
DeveloperSilicon Graphics
OS familyUnix (SVR3/SVR4)
Working stateHistoric as of December 2013
Source modelClosed source
Initial release1988 (1988)
Final release6.5.30 / 16 August 2006 (2006-08-16)
Marketing targetWorkstations, servers
PlatformsMIPS
Kernel typeMonolithic kernel
UserlandPOSIX
Default
user interface
IRIX Interactive Desktop
LicenseProprietary
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