The day I knew they were doomed was right before the rollout of their first PC workstation. It had some interesting functionality, but it was a pretty crash piece of crap. And the performance was dismal, except for one clever bit.
But that's not why I knew they were doomed. It was, I think, a week before an important trade show and I was in one of their testing labs because our app wasn't working right on the new hardware. It was there bug, but ya know, you do your best anyway. The lab was empty. I sat there waiting for some guy who was off at a flying lesson to come back to work so we could do a little debugging. The whole thing was pathetic and it never did really did get any better. They hated the PC. At just about every level and across the whole organization. Personally, I just got tired of hearing about how only IRIX machines could provide the necessary level of coolness to deliver real time simulation. Especially while our partners were doing just that. So yeah, I loved the old IRIX machines back when they were king of the hill. But I grew tired of listening to them whine during that long, slow decline and by the end. Well. They totally deserved it. On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Tomlinson, Gordon <[email protected]> wrote: > Again.... > > They died the day they killed their logo and changed name, the head had > gone but the tale took some time to catch up > > Found memorys though of great hunking Iron and I loved Irix.. > > > Gordon > Product Manager 3d > __________________________________________________________ > Gordon Tomlinson > Email : gtomlinson @ overwatch.textron.com > __________________________________________________________ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Buckley, Bob CTR MDA/IC > Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 3:39 PM > To: OpenSceneGraph Users > Subject: [osg-users] SGI declares bankruptcy (UNCLASSIFIED) > > Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > Caveats: NONE > > > A moment of silence please ... > > http://www.modsim.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1999 > > They sure were amazing. > > Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > Caveats: NONE > > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.or > g > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
