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The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics

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346 points BirAdam | 1 comments | 05 Apr 24 16:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.309s | source
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rongenre ◴[05 Apr 24 17:08 UTC] No.39944755[source]▶
I played with SGI machines in college and they felt like.. the future. I really hoped they would hire me when I graduated.

Incredible, though, how the relatively cheaper Windows NT machines and 3dfx cards and graphics software just killed them. I was a little sad when I wandered around the campus of an employer in Mountain View and noticed the fading sign that had what was left of the SGI logo.

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1. technothrasher ◴[05 Apr 24 18:16 UTC] No.39945385[source]▶
> I played with SGI machines in college and they felt like.. the future.

I had a couple of Indigos that I supported while an undergraduate (I had a student job with the University's Unix group in their computing center), and the SGIs felt to me exactly like the Amiga- Really cool, but kind of lopsided. I tended to do most of my work on the SPARCstations and ignore the SGIs unless I specifically wanted to play with the graphics stuff.

I actually still have an Indigo XS24 that I collected at one point over the years. Tried to get it to boot a bit ago but it's dead, unfortunately.