Side effects:
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It is interesting that usually the most important things are done as a side
effect of ant other work. For example: when I searched for software compatible
with the ancient Indigo workstation (and it is ancient even then compared with
the SGI Indy: it is mainly a nicely packaged last member of IRIS 4D systems)
then I found some nice pieces of code for my current desktops:

- GNU Octave compiled for MIPS2. It runs also on my SGI Indy (there is
	available also MIPS4-compatible version which runs only on the O2 and better
	machines): it lives at http://www.megarat.com/indigo

- Oh, and I also found that http://www.megarat/com/indigo is still alive!

- Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.x for SGI (it's on the Adobe's FTP). I lost my
	installation during IRIX upgrade to 6.5.27 (it was replaced by nicely
	polished XPdf which is better in rendering but which lacks some other
	features).

It might not sound important but presence of the GNU Octave for Indy eases my
work: previously I had to use more powerful (and noisy) O2 for such simple
things like making and testing of example codes for students. If your are
asking why I didn't compile the Octave by myself, the answer is simple: it's
not too easy to compile stuff for IRIX as it usually require a lot of patching
(yes, all Unices should be POSIX-compliant, at least in theory, but there still
a lot of things than can make problems). And that ugly proprietary Reader has
some nice things (like the "fit visible" mode) that XPdf doesn't have ant makes
it use slightly less annoying.