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Re:The Huge Premium Intel Is Charging for Skylake Xeons by ajross on Friday September 01, 2017 @03:57PM (#15151915)
Exactly, and for pretty much the same reason. Once CMOS prices got to the point where 3D graphics acceleration (not SGI's only core competency, but pretty close revenue-wise) was desired at consumer volume, they were toast. NVIDIA had they beat on almost everything that mattered by 1998 or so.
Re:The Huge Premium Intel Is Charging for Skylake Xeons by reaperducer on Friday September 01, 2017 @04:41PM (#15152225)
I remember when my scientician friends started switching from SGI to multiple super-beefed-up Dells in the early 2000's. They could get five monster custom Dell machines for the price of one Octane or Indigo or whatever. And they delivered better performance. (Or so they told me.)
Re:The Huge Premium Intel Is Charging for Skylake Xeons by bluedino on Friday September 01, 2017 @06:37PM (#15152886)
There was about two or 3 generations of either PC hardware or software (Windows) not being able to handle what SGI hardware could, no matter what the price.
Re:The Huge Premium Intel Is Charging for Skylake Xeons by f2f on Friday September 01, 2017 @11:21PM (#15154048)
Don't forget the nail in the coffin: the windows nt-based SGI workstation...