IRIX is a ridiculously stable OS and is a testament to the "throw things at the wall" development attitude at 90's SGI. (thread)
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For another thing, there's space in the Indy's memory map for an entire second peripheral controller. On real hardware, accesses cause a bus error because nothing is there. Map one there, and IRIX will happily reconfigure the kernel. It won't use it, but it won't fail.
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Give it a faster CPU than ever existed? It'll detect the clock speed without complaint. Have mismatched FPU and CPU identifiers? No sweat. It's amazing how legitimately *bad* the emulation can be, yet IRIX will still boot and run as long as the CPU is good (within reason).
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