<QUOTE author="bjames" post_id="2418" time="1534284111" user_id="319">
bjames post_id=2418 time=1534284111 user_id=319 Wrote:<QUOTE author="matyas" post_id="1624" time="1532135872" user_id="244">matyas post_id=1624 time=1532135872 user_id=244 Wrote:A little-known fact was that Irix was a fairly popular platform among academic computer musicians in the 90s.
E-MU Systems were able to connect to SGI. I have an Emulator IV Keyboard from 1996 and the manual explains how to connect the keyboard to SCSI devices (it uses SCSI for CD-Roms and Hard Drives). One of the options in the setup menu is called "SGI on SCSI Bus". This was checked if your music keyboard was connected to a SCSI chain with an SGI computer attached so that it allows 2 SCSI masters on the same chain.
Interesting! I didn't know about the E-MU connection, but I'm not that surprised. SGIs could also read and play back audio DATs from a SCSI-attached DAT drive, something no other platform that I know of could do. SGI would have been a good platform for loading samples from CD or DAT, editing them, and then transferring to the Emulator sampler.
Somewhat better known is the fact that Steinberg's Nuendo was originally implemented on Irix before being ported to Windows and the Mac.
