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by ahartmetz 14 days ago
SGI machines mostly cost a lot of money for the 3D graphics hardware. They didn't make much sense for other purposes.
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criticas 13 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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