Re:Hewlett Packard Enterprise to buy SGI
by alayne on Friday August 12, 2016 @01:00PM
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That's not my understanding at all! SGI had state of the art graphics (and other A/V hardware) at the beginning. At the end of the workstation market, commodity hardware got to the "good enough" level for a lot of people. A number of SGI engineers went to Nvidia.
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Re:Hewlett Packard Enterprise to buy SGI
by honkhonkpants on Friday August 12, 2016 @03:32PM
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At the end of SGI's first life, PC hardware was running rings around Irix workstations. The O2 was basically the slowest machine you could buy at the time. Where I was working at the time we switched our PRO/Engineer machines from SGI to whitebox PCs as soon as PTC ported to Windows NT. A dual-CPU Pentium Pro with Fire GL Pro absolutely smoked the O2 and Indy machines it replaced. So that was my experience, a shop that bought SGIs as long as they were the best platform for a particular software package, and threw them out at the earliest opportunity.