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by infl8ed 34 days ago
Hadn't really heard of SGI too much, going down the rabbit hole I thought this snippet from the Wikipedia page was especially interesting

"For eight consecutive years (1995–2002), all films nominated for an Academy Award for Distinguished Achievement in Visual Effects were created on Silicon Graphics computer systems"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics#Entertainment...

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it is a little known fact that there was a version of Photoshop made for SGI's Irix.
It was ported from the Mac version, along with Illustrator, using a set of libraries called Lattitude that implimented the Mac toolbox on Unix systems.

http://preserve.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.13/13.06/Ju...

The Windows emulator is pretty fun too ..