IRIX, Vim and so ================ Today I has beein in an unusual situation. My most modern working computer is thold good SGI O2 (not counting my wife's AMD which I don't want to use). The important word is "working". The Blackbird is behind me, unconnected as it refuses to boot. Somewhere here is probably the RapsberryPi (1st generation, model B) which would work (maybe), if oly I will have a HDMI andb the Micro USB cable prepared (not usre about mu USB-C keyboard anyway...). My phone can be used (I can confirm that it has no problems with the MNT v3 keuboard nor with the LEnove mini USB mouse) but the screen is small, the terminal has just some commands and there is no X11 nor Tcl/Tk. So I can't coutn this as a "working computer". Both of my MNT Reform laptops are on others places, unfortunately. OK, the SGI Octane is probably working and is more powerful than the O2, but it produces much more heat and noise. In situation when the room temperature goes to 30 degrees (Celsion ones!) these things are pretty much important. And it also cannot effectively use any of my current LCDs (its old graphics works ideally at 1280x1024 - a resolion disliked by both of my curren LCDs). Well, back to topic. I use the O2 because I have to. This is not bad, actually. The 1600x1024 is fine to have 80-columns of Vim (a Gtk+ version) and XPDF with full page side by side. Ideal for LaTeX session. No Overleaf is needed, no Internet connection necessary and things still work as expected. The XFig works as usual. I know it's about 40 years old software but I'm using id tor more than 25 years so for me it's the easier way to create images and technical drawings. The XLinks still works (almost no https:// but this is not as big issue as it may look), the Lynx works, too. I have offline CZ-EN dictionary. The ORF Radio Wien [1] still produces MP3 stream that my XMMS can decode. What more I need? When making some work with use of my new software [2] I have found a few little bugs. Some of them have been mine, some of them were made by AI. I decided to track them down and fix them (I mus confess that Gemini AI surprised me how clean and readable Tcl code it creates - it was rather easy to locate the issues!). The main file is about 11000 lines long (not an ideal for a script, I know.. but even my IRIS Indigo has no issues with that) and I also have had to open some other files (some 16000 lines in total) but the Vim have made no delays at all. Remember that my machine has 250MHz CPU and 768 G of RAM (not GB!). And the gmemusage(1) shows that 530 MB still are free (no swap is used anyway). I remember very well how modern Linux is struggling with 4 GB of RAM when doing similar stuff. Interestingly, the Tc/Tk code is fast enough (taking into account the terrible quality of my plotting routines - I was offered by AI to rewrite this stuff but I don't want to play with that part now as it works). Of course, the FEA solver uses lot of matrix operations (and matrix operations with use of Tcl 8.0 compatible features, mostly lists, is of course extremely slow but a small C helper library make these things fast). SGI machines had CPUs with very fast FPU operations (unlike their m68k and x86 competitors) so these things still can run well (no matter what compiler I use, even the GCC produces machine code of acceptable quality here).. Written on the SGI O2 when doing programming. References: [1] http://orf-live.ors-shoutcast.at/wie-q2a [2] http://jirka.sdf.org/fem1/index.html