On: The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics

[bluedino]

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 → bluedino]

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.