Standards Compliance

IRIX provides standard SVR4 programming interfaces and BSD networking, and complies with the following standards:

System V Interface Definition, Issue 3 (SVID3), which is the defining document for SVR4. IRIX provides the SVR4 Applications Programming Interface (API) and the Applications Binary Interface (ABI) as defined in SVID3.
X/Open Portability Guide, Issue 3 (XPG3), which specifies a set of programming interfaces to be provided by operating systems in order to facilitate the writing of portable programs.
POSIX P1003.1, another standard for portable programming.
X Window System, Version 11, Release 6 (X11R6). IRIX provides the industry-standard X Window System(TM).
OSF/Motif(TM) Release 1.2. IRIX includes IRIS IM(TM), the Silicon Graphics port of the industry-standard OSF/Motif user-interface toolkit.
OpenGL(TM). IRIX provides a full implementation of this standard for 3D graphics.