My dual charcoal gray (modded to VGA) 17" SGI monitors, the Personal IRIS 4D/25 and Indigo system boards on my wall, and my O2 workstation will be shrouded in black today.
When I was 10 I remember seeing a demo of 3D shutter glasses on an SGI. I remember reading about C.A.V.E. I remember walking up to one of those big shiny black SGI demo trucks and being blown away by immersive 3D environments being rendered in real-time when my dads state-of-the-art Pentium 66 could barely push 1000 polygons at 320x240 x 24 fps.
SGI is not a company; it is a cult. It is the epitome of the euphoria of the '90s tech boom, and a beautiful abstract dream of turning pure computer engineering in to visual imagination. If it weren't for the concepts that SGI's engineers turned in to realities in the late '80s and early '90s, PC graphics of today would be a tiny gray fragment of what they are today.
As far as I'm concerned, SGI shouldn't live on as a crummy corporate entity with none of the spirit and attitude that made them great (I mean, they got rid of the spinning cube, fer gods sakes!). The memory of those such as myself who were indelibly impressed by the style and power of those SGI masterpieces will always remember those feelings of true awe they inspired, and we will seek them out again, on whatever platform is at hand. Whatever detractors may say about commodity hardware and performance levels, it hardly matters. SGI did it first, and they did it with *style*
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Hek yeah. I've got two running 4D/25s!! How many people can say that their 17 year old coffee table boots at 1280x1024??
My dual charcoal gray (modded to VGA) 17" SGI monitors, the Personal IRIS 4D/25 and Indigo system boards on my wall, and my O2 workstation will be shrouded in black today.
When I was 10 I remember seeing a demo of 3D shutter glasses on an SGI. I remember reading about C.A.V.E. I remember walking up to one of those big shiny black SGI demo trucks and being blown away by immersive 3D environments being rendered in real-time when my dads state-of-the-art Pentium 66 could barely push 1000 polygons at 320x240 x 24 fps.
SGI is not a company; it is a cult. It is the epitome of the euphoria of the '90s tech boom, and a beautiful abstract dream of turning pure computer engineering in to visual imagination. If it weren't for the concepts that SGI's engineers turned in to realities in the late '80s and early '90s, PC graphics of today would be a tiny gray fragment of what they are today.
As far as I'm concerned, SGI shouldn't live on as a crummy corporate entity with none of the spirit and attitude that made them great (I mean, they got rid of the spinning cube, fer gods sakes!). The memory of those such as myself who were indelibly impressed by the style and power of those SGI masterpieces will always remember those feelings of true awe they inspired, and we will seek them out again, on whatever platform is at hand. Whatever detractors may say about commodity hardware and performance levels, it hardly matters. SGI did it first, and they did it with *style*