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Re:Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail by anthk on Thursday July 16, 2026 @05:00AM (#48932018)
Maybe; but compared to a Sun machine the Indy had better graphical capabilities. And far beyond from a PC and an Amiga.

You could always repurpose the SGI machine for anything else too.

Re:Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail by MomsAVoxell on Thursday July 16, 2026 @08:48AM (#48933738)
The Indy had poor graphics capabilities, compared to the other desktop machines SGI was making at the time - I was excited to see what might have happened if SGI had kept going in this direction, and made a laptop.

Instead they did a deal with the devil and died.

I got a tiBook to use as a terminal for my SGI boxes at the time, and well now, 20 years later, a table full of Apple gear and the Octane2’s in storage, probably to be dusted off by a descendent some day .. it is sort of extraordinary that Apple ate SGI’s lunch in the Unix workstation department.