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ahartmetz 32 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail

SGI machines mostly cost a lot of money for the 3D graphics hardware. They didn't make much sense for other purposes.

criticas 31 days ago [–]

If you were already an IRIX shop, the servers were performant for a lot of uses. SGI did networking and disk I/O at least as well as Sun, IBM, and HP. We ran NFS and Perforce for hundreds of developers on SGI servers.

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