> Years ago us SGI hobbyists were able to talk to SGI about this and a huge > problem SGI had with any kind of hobbyist > license for IRIX or turning it free is it's fully of licensed 3rd party > stuff. But maybe now that's it's expired, or all > the companies things were licensed from are gone.
Release of Classic HP3000 died for the same reason from the same company. HP has no motivation to spend time/money to release this. Also, the only way CHM was able to release what we did (HP1000, 68K 9000 and Apollo) was having us release it only for non-commercial research/hobby purposes.
