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Post #8 by Vector00
Source ForumIRIX Theme & Theme Problems — #8
CategoryTroubleshooting
Post DateWed, 23 Apr 2003 - 17:06
Original URLhttps://web.archive.org/web/20050522192114/https://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=138192
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No Offense Dude ...

But IRIX is no x86 OS ...
It is based on MIPS r4000- r14000 RISC CPUs
Therefore think before you speak ... You could offend a lot of old-aged mips fanatics ... :-)

They like intel/Miscrosh** even less then the apple-folk do ...

Consider intel a Volkswagen
Consider motorola a Benz E-Class
Consider mips a Benz S-Class
(Kinda a grandfather of a POWER 4 or a 970 in the server and high level computing league)

The Indigo Magic Desktop has a lot of things i would miss in the OSX ... like e.g. the scale wheels (lacking a better term for it) ...
If you'd work on a sgi ... you would get it ... that a 90ies Sgi machine is a 21st century mac ..

Hell ... they invented the multimedia computer ... :-)
Therefore ... we should adopt a theme ... in the deepest respect ... for a pioneer of multimedia/Visual computing, which sgi undoubtedly is.

I admit this is just a quick hack ... but I like the 80ies Bevel and Emboss Look ... somehow ..
It has its own charme ... and BTW ... it is not that much distracting, when working graphically....