In Reply to: RE: Comments like his appear to preclude any knowledge posted by AbeCollins on August 29, 2014 at 12:19:56:
We bought a ton of them for Grim Fandango, - since it was a Softimage platform, - or so we wanted. They were just porting over Softimage for quad processor PCs running Windows/NT, and it worked so badly that it was largely unusable. We used the quad-processor PCs for Jedi, which a lot of was based on 3DStudio and Lightwave. Those SGIs were powerful little toasters. Amazing video, for the olden days.
ILM was running tons of them in their server room. We got a great deal cause we were the biggest SGI purchaser outside Boeing.
I was there from 93 to 1999.
"Asylums with doors open wide,
Where people had paid to see inside,
For entertainment they watch his body twist
Behind his eyes he says, 'I still exist.'"
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Follow Ups
- Sure, running on SGIs - Sordidman 12:53:56 08/29/14 (8)
- Ah, I remember playing Grim Fandango - Jaundiced Ear 13:46:15 08/29/14 (0)
- RE: Sure, running on SGIs - AbeCollins 13:21:10 08/29/14 (6)
- RE: Sure, running on SGIs - jamestavegia@gmail.com 05:25:39 09/04/14 (0)
- RE: Sure, running on SGIs - Tony Lauck 16:15:05 08/29/14 (2)
- RE: Sure, running on SGIs - AbeCollins 20:34:06 08/29/14 (0)
- RE: Sure, running on SGIs - Jaundiced Ear 16:38:08 08/29/14 (0)
- Yep... cool co-los before there were cool co-los :-) - Sordidman 14:22:47 08/29/14 (1)
- RE: Yep... cool co-los before there were cool co-los :-) - AbeCollins 20:00:29 08/29/14 (0)