[Liverpool] Retro Computing

[Richard Smedley]

On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 10:40 +0000, oscillik wrote:
> SGI....hmmm weren't they the spiffy graphics workstations that ran a custom 
> UNIX or something?

In the 90s they had the best monitors ever seen - pin
sharp. The Indy was used for the CGI in films like 
"Jurassic Park". The OS is Irix, with the Indigo GUI,
very snappy. You can also run GNU/Linux on most of them. :)

 - Richard