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Oct 19, 2020 · I scanned and attached some price lists, most are in 'Swiss Francs', some in German 'Deutsche Mark' before introduction of Euro. Price lists include SGI Hardware (Indy, Indigo2, O2) but also some software (mostly softimage) and bundles.
- webmaster@sgi.sh
- Microsoft Office
- Pentium Pro
- The Advent of 64-bit
- The Itanium Fiasco
- AMD Did A Good Job
- Microsoft Enforced Cross-Compatibility
The thing that gradually doomed the UNIX workstations was Microsoft Office. Corporate managers really wanted their engineers to be able to read and write Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents, and were annoyed that engineers couldn't do that on their workstations, and even worse, weren't concerned about it. Giving them a second computer for Office w...
Before Intel shipped the Pentium Pro in November 1995, all the RISC Unixes had major performance advantages over PCs. It was reasonably straightforward for an ISV to offer the same software on several of them, since they all used Unix, similar dialects of C and C++, and X-Windows for GUI. The Pentium Pro was the first mass-market processor to use t...
This actually started before the Pentium Pro, with the DEC Alpha, but didn't become important until the price of memory was low enough that having multiple GB of RAM was sensible. It marked an important change: memory limits became a soft cap rather than a hard cap. With 32-bit addressing, using more than 4GB of address space in a process (with ine...
The long-term significance of Itanium was that it disrupted the development of the main RISC architectures: 1. MIPS development stopped for several years, and never caught up again. 2. Alpha was killed off. 3. PA-RISC was replaced by Itanium. 4. SPARC and POWER only had brief slowdowns, which is part of why they're still going.
One of the reasons Itanium was so unlike x86 was so that it could be patented up to the eyeballs, and none of it would be subject to AMD's x86 license. AMD could not build Itanium-compatibles, so they had to design something to compete with Itanium. They did that well, and Intel made several mistakes with Itanium design and product management. Inte...
Apparently - this is from a senior AMD person in 2005 - Intel wanted to build a 64-bit x86 that was not AMD-compatible. Their intention was to force software vendors to do separate builds for Intel and AMD, in the hope that they would not bother with AMD software, and drive AMD out of the market. Dave Cutler of Microsoft responded that they already...
SGI produced a broad range of MIPS-based workstations and servers during the 1990s, running SGI's version of UNIX System V, now called IRIX. These included the massive Onyx visualization systems, the size of refrigerators and capable of supporting up to 64 processors while managing up to three streams of high resolution, fully realized 3D graphics.
For use as a graphics workstation, the Indigo was equipped with a two-dimensional framebuffer or, for use as a 3D graphics workstation, with the Elan graphics subsystem including one to four Geometry Engines (GEs). SGI sold a server version with no video adapter.
Dec 17, 2019 · The pricing action comes two months after the company introduced it. An Octane system featuring 250-MHz R10000 processor, meanwhile, will drop from $38,995 to $24,995. […] SGI will further cut the price of its Onyx2 Reality supercomputer with two 250-MHz R10000 processors by 45 percent, to $75,000.
Nov 10, 2022 · SGI primarily dealt in high-end Linux servers rather than 3D graphics systems until 2016, when it was announced that Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) would acquire SGI for approximately $275...
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Yet, even if one could afford to purchase a SGI workstation IRIX, the proprietary Unix-based operating system was optimized for 3D visualization and high performance computing environments. This meant that SGI systems often lacked of support for popular software of the time, including video games.
