[Liverpool] Retro Computing

[Chris Howells]

> 2009/2/6 oscillik <oscillik at gmail.com>:
> IIRC, SGI machines are MIPS machines that run IRIX, which is a custom
> UNIX for their machines. Some of the SGI machines were way ahead of
> anything else in terms of graphics, shame they've slipped under the
> radar in the last few years.

Yup. They tried to switch to making Itanium machines rather than MIPS, and
as Itanium has in itself been a miserable failure, they did rather badly
out of it.

I have a Silicon Graphics workstation as the coffee table in my lounge.


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