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Re:Why HP Fell by johnvanommen on Monday August 20, 2018 @12:44PM (#17801456)
WOW. I did not know this. And now NVidia is far more than a "gaming" company.
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Re:Why HP Fell by acdha on Monday August 20, 2018 @01:11PM (#17801722)
Yeah, there's a really interesting alternative history of computing where SGI's management was anywhere near the same caliber as their engineering.
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Re:Why HP Fell by Annatar on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @03:46AM (#17807826)
SGI engineers designed and implemented mind-blowing stuff: inst(1M) software management subsystem is still lightyears ahead of any other, even today, and how long has IRIX been out of production?

Unbelievably mind blowing engineers.

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Re:Why HP Fell by Annatar on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @03:45AM (#17807820)
Yep. "Infinite Reality" was a precursor to the Nvidia technology today. That's when first shader pipelines came into existence.
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