Virtual SGIs machines?

[Peter Bismuti]

I wondered if there would ever be a virtual machine that emulated SGI 
hardware, similar to VMWare.  I don't think there is one, but there is a 
product called "Transitive", which I believe uses a transparent virtual 
machine to enable old applications that have been compiled on SGI machines 
to run on a variety of CPUs/OSes, Linux being the primary OS.  Executables 
as old as 10 years old have successfully run, but it may require that OpenGL 
was used and not GL.

It is quite pricey, but apparently there is a large demand for it as many 
companies are going through the painful job of porting apps to Linux.  It 
helps keep old apps available to customers so that they can buy themselves 
enough time to port their code, which was said to typically be 12-16 months.