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Re:NeXTstep Manual, Systems Programming with Objective-C and... by nickpsecurity on Sunday June 05, 2016 @02:38PM (#11842379)
Things like InfiniteReality architecture and visual-area networks were pretty wild. A nice pdf for you:

https://diglib.eg.org/bitstream/handle/10.2312/EGGH.EGGH97.0...

I'd have loved to have cheaper and cheaper versions of NUMAlink in my desktop with stuff like their FPGA boards and graphics pipes. NUMAlink cards instead of PCI cards. Microsecond latency with almost 80GB/s speeds. Cellular IRIX-style splitting of system along multiple boards for max reliability and efficiency. Nice, alternate reality. :)

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Re:NeXTstep Manual, Systems Programming with Objective-C and... by fit2rule on Sunday June 05, 2016 @03:10PM (#11842541)
That was a nice PDF, thank you. It hurts to see SGI go the way of the Dodo, but it enlightens me to realize that this is The Way in computers. Not all who excel, persist.

(BTW, I'd have been quite happy with an SGI Indy laptop, y'know .. like the one we saw in the movies, a year or so before Steve did the tiBook..)

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