Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 2nd Nov 2005 17:39 UTC
Silicon Graphics Inc. today issued a melancholy press release confirming that it has been kicked off the New York Stock Exchange, and will now trade as a 'penny stock'. SGI was the high-bandwidth, visualization-rich, media-savvy computer systems company that flourished in a decade when media pundits clamored for a winner in what they called 'the convergence space'. SGI obliged, and spared nothing - for a while its budgets were flush for R&D and fancy architecture. "Oh, SGI, we loved you and you screwed up. Bigtime."
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2005-07-06
I used to have to admin IRIX in a shop that had IRIX, HP/UX, Solaris, and Linux. IRIX was OK, but generally behind with respect to standard UNIX stuff: DNS, NIS, NFS, Sendmail, etc.. Sometimes it was hard to get IRIX to play nice with the rest of the network.
We used O2 machines for doing PCB development. They were cool and all, but in the end not worth the money. We got rid of the last one in 2000. We were able to replace them with Windows machines running the same software for 1/4 the price.