Re:SGI's $250,000 Graphics Supercomputer from 1993 – Onyx Re...
by sureaboutthis on Sunday September 02, 2018 @10:14AM
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I was the systems engineer for SGI mainly to McDonnell-Douglas in St. Louis in 1992 for their flight simulators. If you think what you saw was something ...
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Re:SGI's $250,000 Graphics Supercomputer from 1993 – Onyx Re...
by harel on Sunday September 02, 2018 @01:58PM
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I'm sure my early teen eyes saw only a glimpse. The one I was shown was designed for the Israeli air force. This was the closest I got to sit in an F-16 cockpit, and the closest I got to super computing power even films couldn't show me at the time. I do however remember them totting the 250K price tag.