Does anyone pay attention to SGI anymore?
Some years ago, SGI decided to discontinue development of systems using the MIPS processor, and to pursue development of Intel Architecture systems. Their first models ran Windows NT, but nobody cared, so they switched to Linux. Linux is an easier migration path for developers who wrote for IRIX. But it was still work to move from IRIX on MIPS to Linux on IA-64.
Now, with the use of Transitive‘s product QuickTransit, those legacy applications can run seamlessly on SGI’s new Prism line of “visualization systems.”