Ben, > SGI was the Unix world's answer to the Apple Macintosh: Physical >design is colorful, bold, almost artistic; all the OEM pieces work >together very well; oh-so-pretty desktop GUI; utterly incompatible >with anything third-party; way more expensive than everything else. >;-)
These machines started about the time that the team which designed the first of DECs MIPS workstations left DECwest and went to SGI. I believe the engineering manager's name was Tom Furlong, and he was very bright and a nice guy. I remember going to Byte Magazine Labs in Peterborough and seeing one of the SGI Indigos there. It was playing music from a CD, running a nice equalizer, doing some nice graphics etc. etc. and the people testing it were gaga over the audio. I watched it for a while and asked them what the machine could do while it was playing the music and doing the graphics. "Not much" was the answer. I told them I could buy a much cheaper CD player, and what I really wanted was a computer. md _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
