OpenBSD on SGI: a rollercoaster story
Hacker News
March 5, 2026
Interest in supporting the
MIPS
architecture in BSD is about as old as the architecture itself, and
Risc/OS
(the Unix variant running on MIPS' own workstations, before MIPS got bought by
SGI and stopped manufacturing anything but processors)
was based upon BSD code; so was
Ultrix, Digital's first
flavour of Unix, which ran on VAX but also on its MIPS-based
DECstations.
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Originally published on Hacker News on 3/5/2026