BTW, I found out recently, that they used the Super Foonly F1 (a
supercharged PDP-10 no less) to render the CGI for the film TRON!
For anything commercial, sure. The motives of enthusiasts can beI've always wanted to have a play with IRiX but there aren't any
somewhat different. It's possible they're nostalgic for the SGI
Altix 350 or 450 systems, which just might imply they managed to get
them to do something useful. If so, that's a feat worth remembering.
good SGI emulators out there.
BTW, I found out recently, that they used the Super Foonly F1 (a supercharged PDP-10 no less) to render the CGI for the film TRON!
Supercharged with respect to a 1967 PDP-10 (KA-10 CPU) or 1971
DECsystem-10 (KI-10 CPU). The F1 is approximately the same
processing power as a 1974 KL-10 CPU (DECsystem-1080, DECSYSTEM-
2040).
The Systems Concepts SC-40 was the only truly supercharged PDP-10,
with a floating point accelerator that gave roughly 10x performance
for FP operations. For everything else, the SC boxes and the XKL
Toad-1 and TOAD-2 systems provide 2x to 2.5x processing power over
the KL-10.
I've always wanted to have a play with IRiX but there aren't any
good SGI emulators out there.
<https://ozgurkazancci.com/irix-6-5-22-emulation/>
Of course, the Altix systems were Linux on Itanium: Irix only ever
ran on MIPS.
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