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by sitkack 1929 days ago
https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/tech-history/...

When we look backwards in time, we see lots of tributaries that dried up for various reasons. That SGI workstation is still in your head, it is really up to us to copy and extend those concepts forwards in time.

That software is still sitting on a box of junk in someones basement somewhere, it just has to be found.

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That software is sitting in an SGI in my basement :-)
That's a sad one too. it's hard to quantify the loss of an ecosystem.