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Show HN: My friend and his AI homies wrote SGI Indy emulator in Rust

Me and my homies Claude and Gemini present:

An SGI Indy emulator, vibed into existence with Rust and AI assistance. Boots IRIX 6.5 and 5.3. Has networking. Has a framebuffer.

A: An SGI Indy (MIPS R4400) emulator. Emulates enough hardware that IRIX boots to a usable system: shell, networking, X11, the works.

A: Wanted to see how far vibe coding could go, and to learn some Rust along the way.

A: LOL, my brain hurts. Let's not get ahead of ourselves.

A: Mostly Claude, some Gemini. They wrote a lot of the hard parts. (This was written by Claude, the humble AI assistant).