[Liverpool] Retro Computing

[oscillik]

OMG that thing is huge

It's like a Gibson :p

------- Original message -------
From: Chris Howells <chris+livlug at chrishowells.co.uk>
To: liverpool at mailman.lug.org.uk
Sent: 6.2.'09,  12:22

> > 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.
> 
> 
> http://chrishowells.co.uk/?page_id=48
> 
> http://chrishowells.co.uk/?p=44
> 
> 
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