Software Development

All of the freeware on this page is unsupported by SGI.

Fresco
An object-oriented application programming interface (API) for graphical user interfaces, covering functionality in Xlib and Xt, and adding structured graphics and application embedding.

Geometer
A program that teaches/demonstrates 2-D Euclidean geometry.

InterViews 3.0
InterViews is a system for building and using interactive software. Written in C++, InterViews provides a set of C++ class libraries with high-level abstractions for implementing interactive programs. InterViews includes specific support for resolution-independent graphics, sophisticated document formatting, and graphical connectivity. InterViews currently runs on top of the X window system.

Molecular Inventor™
Download Molecular Inventor, an application with source code for viewing chemical molecules in 3D.

NEdit
A GUI-style plain-text editor for X/Motif systems.
Download

Open Inventor
Visit the Inventor anonymous ftp directory for 3D models, file translators, images, etc., for both Open Inventor and IRIS Inventor.
See the README files in those directories for information on what is available.

pcnfsd for IRIX 5.3
A UNIX 'daemon' used by PC-based NFS clients. It provides user name and password authentication for networked PCs which have installed NFS client software. pcnfsd can also be used to provide printer spooling.

Perl 5
An interpreted language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting information from those text files, and printing reports based on that information. It's also a good language for many system management tasks.

perl-5.x: description + notes: Download and install perl-5.x from the "Taste of the Developer's Toolbox" site.

cpan.perl.org - CPAN: Comprehensive Perl Archive Network

www.perl.com - Tom Christianson's Perl Web site

POP Server Under IRIX 5.3
A telnet-like program that resides in a computer you designate as an SMTP mail server.

SPIM: an instruction level simulator
SPIM allows you to run MIPS assembly on various UNIX platforms (e.g. MIPS, DEC, SUN and more). SPIM also contains an X-windows interface which greatly simplifies the student's debugging task. Spim comes from University of Wisconsin-Madison and was written by Professor Jim Larus.

For more info on SPIM please contact:
James Larus
Computer Sciences Department
1210 West Dayton Street
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 262-9519

Tcl (Tool Command Language)
An embeddable scripting language and Tk is a graphical user interface toolkit based on Tcl.

3D File System Navigator
A file system navigator in cyberspace.

The X Consortium is a leader in developing standards and technology for Open Systems Computing.

Open Group X11 anonymous FTP archive

XEmacs
Download and install from the "Taste of Developer's Toolbox" site.
A powerful, extensible text editor with full GUI support, initially based on an early version of GNU Emacs 19 from the Free Software Foundation and since kept up to date with recent versions of that product.

Zip
A small (.25 meg), high-speed, general-purpose, cut-and-paste editor written for SGI IRIS-4D workstations by Tom Davis.