Reliving The Glory Days of SGI

devin15 writes "Remember in the '90's when the tech boom was in full swing and SGI was the darling of the 3D graphics industry, whatever happened to those days? Wired is running an article about a group for whom the glory days of SGI have not yet gone. From the article:" If the Mac community is dwarfed by the Microsoft horde, the number of SGI users amounts to a rounding error.""

Comments

Re:Great styling.

[IANAAC]

And had a snazzy start-up horn riff too.

Re:Jurassic Park

[SaturnSS]

"Don't forget SGI's big moment in Jurassic Park!"

Oh the irony!

Ob. Jurassic Park

[magefile]

"Hey, I know this. It's UNIX!"

Re:Three degrees of seperation.

[enigmals1]

I heard you guys are finally getting your own secret decoder rings... is this really true?

;)

Re:Three degrees of seperation.

[ISEENOEVIL]

Decoder rings, no. RFID implants in the near future? Possibly. Joking aside, there are no barriers to joining the community. You would be surprised, owning one isn't even necessary. -Stormy

Re:IRIS Workstation

[imroy]

Jeff Belluzo, or however his name is spelt. I read recently that before SGI he was the CEO of HP (or DEC? somewhere) and had pretty much done the exact same thing there as well.

Hey, lets drop our great Unix-on-RISC machines and make Wintel PCs! We'll lose control of most of the hardware and software, and be competing with every other beige-box maker! We'll still charge more though, for our brand-name and support. That is, until everyone wises up. Sounds like a great plan! Lets hear it for conformity and blandness!

Me, cynical? Nah...

SGI Indy vs Cassiopeia PDA

[Proc6]

11-12 years ago I started my own business as an independant 3D animator and multimedia content developer. I spent something like $15,000 on an SGI Indy with a 100Mhz MIPS R4000 CPU in it and Softimage|3D.

A few years later, after the SGI had fallen apart and was long since replaced by a far cheaper NT Workstation running the newly ported-to-NT Softimage|3D, I went out and bought a PDA to assist me with my meeting and contact organization.

I was flipping through the technical specs in the manual when I ran across:

Casio Cassiopeia E-100/105 Info
Processor: Mips R4000
ROM CPU: 131 MHz