Re: Was there *ever* a third-party book on IRIX or SGI computers?

From: Steve Modica (me_at_NOSPAM.com)
Date: 07/26/04

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    Mandy Moore wrote:

    > I am new to the SGI seen, in fact I am still waiting to win an auction so
    > I'll have one. But I am hanging out here to learn what I can. The most
    > helpful realization has been that in fact SGI's support area has an
    > incredible set of PDF files that should explain just about everything I
    > could want to know about their OS. I have also benefitted from the links to
    > SGI-related websites that have been posted here.
    >
    > That said, I enjoy reading third-party books about a technology because the
    > author will often present opinions that differ from the official version
    > about why something was done the way it was. In the Unix world, where every
    > hardware-specific OS has its own idiosyncracies, awareness that IRIX is not
    > the only OS that ever existed is valuable. Thus, can anyone recommend a book
    > not published by SGI that covers IRIX or the unique SGI hardware? I found
    > AIX books when I owned a PowerPC Thinkpad, I owned a third-party HP-UX book
    > when I briefly used on back in '96, and there are dozens of Solaris books.
    > Is there not even one of IRIX???
    >
    > Also, I understand that IRIX "support" was removed from Evi Nemeth's Unix
    > System Administration Handbook in favor of Linux for the third edition. The
    > second edition from 1996 is available cheap. Does anyone have experience
    > with that version? Is it still useful for a 6.2 or 6.5 admin?
    >
    > Thanks so much for any replies!
    >
    >
    >

    "The Magic Garden Explained" is a great book for sgi. It's not SGI
    specific, but all the examples are R3000 MIPS based. It's a system V
    internals book.

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