For historical perspective, you need to know that we were owned by Microsoft in 1998, and there was no indication that SGI or the Mac would come back from the dead. The company began to consider the Film industry as "legacy" and that games would be the future. The product was named after the name of the game exchange format to subtly suggest that. Max also had taken the Windows NT jump, with huge success.
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