Pretty ironic video, considering SGI's nickel and diming of their own customers (they charged big bucks for things like compilers and system updates), right around the time when commodity PCs were becoming comparable in processing and graphics ability led to an abrupt mass exodus of their customer base.
In 1995 even the base Indy had capabilities not available on a Mac or PC at any pricepoint. That being said, this little blue pizza box cost more than your car and had nodelocked software (no piracy), used expensive 13W3 displays (ching), gold plated ECC SIMMS (ca-ching) and required an annual service agreement (cash register sounds intensify) so it being available to the common man is marketing hype of SGI proportions.
Wouldn't it have been more fun if they just rendered all of this in 3D in that very machine they advertised...
It would still be rendering...
Now we know where the sgi profit went.
Pretty ironic video, considering SGI's nickel and diming of their own customers (they charged big bucks for things like compilers and system updates), right around the time when commodity PCs were becoming comparable in processing and graphics ability led to an abrupt mass exodus of their customer base.
In 1995 even the base Indy had capabilities not available on a Mac or PC at any pricepoint. That being said, this little blue pizza box cost more than your car and had nodelocked software (no piracy), used expensive 13W3 displays (ching), gold plated ECC SIMMS (ca-ching) and required an annual service agreement (cash register sounds intensify) so it being available to the common man is marketing hype of SGI proportions.
What did i just watch?