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Re:Windows NT 3.1 on Dec Alpha AXP by sillywalk on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @05:00PM (#37771711)
Yeah, in 1996 SGI bought Cray for $740 million. They got CrayLink/NumaLink, but also a big 64way SMP SPARC machine, which they sold to Sun for "significantly less than $100 million." Which became the Sun E10K, which made a lot of money.[0]

Then a bunch of the graphics people (who did the GPU for the Nintendo 64) went to found ArtX [1], which got bought by ATI.

There was also the ill-fated Fahrenheit project.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/2002/05/06/0506sun.html#703713c16a5e [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArtX

Re:Windows NT 3.1 on Dec Alpha AXP by panick21_ on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @05:19PM (#37771960)
Pretty sure 'CrayLink' was actually developed by SGI and just branded 'Cray'.
Re:Windows NT 3.1 on Dec Alpha AXP by sillywalk on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @05:40PM (#37772200)
My bad; from wikipedia.. Looks like this[0] was considered NumaLink v1. Hooking up 16 SGI Iris'

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_DASH

Re:Windows NT 3.1 on Dec Alpha AXP by panick21_ on Thursday October 05, 2023 @06:31AM (#37776879)
At least this proves that their marketing was successful :)