30 Dec
2022
30 Dec
'22
7:48 p.m.
I went to Onyx2/Origin 2000 training in Mountain View in the building that
is now the Computer History Museum and I met a lot of Gov folks but I also
met a lot of oil people who used SGIs to crunch data. At the time no one
could touch them but that too changed
As for workstations the one I remember being a real competitor was
Intergraph. They had dual pentium pro boxes with proprietary cards that ran
NT and Softimage. Microsoft bought Softimage to compete with SGI and SGI
bought Alias Wavefront
On Sat, Dec 24, 2022, 4:15 PM Ethan O'Toole via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Really without the US government as a customer I wonder how many of these
companies could have made it on industry alone.
- Ethan