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	by rbanffy 662 days ago
	> Almost no one even at the time knew what SGI was. In the late 90’s and early 2000’s even apples share was tiny. It wasn’t even very convenient to read e-mails. GUI e—mail programs were not up to the Eudora level on those machines. And heaven forbid you needing a spreadsheet.

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By 1999/2001 I think you already had Star office.

And KDE1 for sure. But these were the very last years of the SGI machines.

Maybe, but I don’t remember IRIX binaries.

By 2001 it was this, but it was very late for Irix:

Also, I forgot. By 1995 and beyond I'm pretty sure Netscape and such existed for Irix.