[vcf-midatlantic] Original Macintosh Architecture Questions

[Christian Liendo]

I went to an Origin 2000/Onyx2 training back in 1997. I think 97.

It was at the building that is now the Computer History Museum.

Most of the people I met were with the military and oil and gas.

The US government had a lot of SGIs.

In fact for a while, we used to look for parts on the gov auctions.



On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 1:18 PM Andrew Diller via vcf-midatlantic
<vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
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> OK- while SGI is usually associated with the desktop gfx visualization space they did quite a lot in the cluster and super computing space...
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> The Power Challenge and Origin systems were all designed to be supercomputing clusters.
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> The MIPS R8000 was a fascinating dead-end in chip development:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R8000 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R8000>
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> I look forward to visiting and seeing what you have out there.
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> -andy
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