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bluedino
5 months ago
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The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics
They were destined for eventually dying like the rest of the high end UNIX workstation market. Linux and x86 got better and better every year.
tombert
5 months ago
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Yeah, and OS X more or less mainstream-ized consumer UNIX as well. It gave you access to the UNIX tools in the command line if you wanted them, had a solid UNIX core, but was a lot cheaper than an SGI and also easy to use.
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