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Sure, running on SGIs

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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