👉 Okay, letās tackle that wonderfully prickly little beast of a hyphen, and I mean, honestly? It justā¦ sticks in my craw a bit sometimes. Let's unpack what "SGIā2 (gee-eyeātwo! yell it out there!)" actually means.
Basically, it's a ridiculously specific, almost tragically outdated, systems services interface that dates back to the early days of the early 90ās mainframe and mid-range computer market. Before everything went into beige panels with lots of blinking lights and punch cards (okay, maybe not all thingsā¦ but you get my point). Think about it. Early networking was... well... let's just say a little more procedural than the pretty-faced, instantly gratifying thing we have now! This interfaceāand I shudder when I even utter itāwas essentially a blunt, somewhat terrifying, way for basically everything to yell at each other and try to reliably swap bits of information. You were told exactly what you got. There was no fancy error reporting, just a cryptic status field that would occasionally tell you the thing had failed, in the most technically-dense and unhelpful language imaginable. Theoretically, it was supposed to handle SCSI (the interface for direct communications between your mainframe and its tape and floppy disks - seriously, who even still has those things?!). The '2' tacked on simply meant this specific implementation of SCSIāone that was so old
