[Raion]

Jan, I understand your situation. My main recommendation is because I prefer the features and programming environment that 6.5 offers over 6.2 and derivatives. I find the operating system is more stable and featureful and runs fine on anything with over 128M of RAM.

I realize that some people here are graphics guys but honestly I'm not. I have little artistic talent and even less inclination for it, so I can't do 3D modeling to save my life or any of the other things that SGI was specifically known for. Rather my interest has always been on the HPC side. Yes our systems are slow and low memory by many modern metrics but I only consider something really low memory when it starts to get down into 64 mags or less because that's where programming starts to become difficult for a lot of things.

At some point when there's less pressure on me to take care of the future stuff for IRIX I do want to ensure 5.3 and 6.2 get some attention but it's just not in the cards for me right now.