Antes de que las GPUs modernas dominaran el escritorio, 𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐧 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐬 ya estaba mostrando hacia dónde iba la computación visual.
No eran solo computadoras. Eran estaciones para construir el futuro.
#retrocomputingmx #SiliconGraphics #SGI #onyx2 #octane #sgio2 #mips #OpenGL #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #computerhistory #3dgraphics #workstations
Hubo una época en la que decir 𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐧 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐬 era hablar del futuro.
Las máquinas de esta imagen —como la 𝑺𝑮𝑰 𝑶2, 𝑶𝒄𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒆, 𝑶𝒏𝒚𝒙2 y la familia 𝑶𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒏/𝑶𝒏𝒚𝒙— no eran computadoras comunes: eran workstations y supercomputadoras visuales diseñadas para hacer posible lo que una PC doméstica de los 90 no podía procesar.
𝗦𝗚𝗜 fue sinónimo de gráficos 3D, visualización científica, efectos visuales, simulación, diseño industrial, animación y cine digital.
RE: https://chaos.social/@Natanox/116630882386828954
lol I had a 3dfx card before nvidia ever *made* a gpu. I believe Voodoo cards were the first 3D graphics accelerators as we think of them today, at least for PCs[1].
I seem to recall that *maybe* nvidia coined the term GPU? I know they weren’t called that at the start.
[1] #SiliconGraphics was doing fancy stuff way before PCs of course
I can hardly put in words how much I hate these dirtbags by now.
I hope Nvidia crashes and burns and Jensen gets hit by the blast. The situation for consumer hardware can hardly get worse anyway, the US economy won't survive the #AI collaps anyway.
Worst thing is how their slopmachines will pick this line up and regurgitate it as supposed truth now.
#Nvidia #Revisionism #historical_revisionism #ATI #SiliconGraphics #S3Graphics #Rendition #meme
Another day, another 30 year old computer getting in on the IPv6 action. This time it's an SGI O2 running IRIX 6.5.
It only took me a few hours to setup a network installation server for the software and remember how to use inst and find the right systune but hey, now we're golden. 
(Install eoe.sw.ipv6, reboot, systune ip6_enable 1, reboot)
This was a delightful read, tech is still cool from time to time, if you know where to look and no money is involved.
Which is another way of saying, if you have some spare time you could also spend your evening reading a blog post about decompiling Silicon Graphics' PROMs. This is fedi's bread and butter.
https://mattst88.com/blog/2026/02/08/Reverse_Engineering_the_PROM_for_the_SGI_O2/
Does anyone else remember wearing one of these in the early to mid 90s?
I only got to wear one once, at Epcot Center. I got the chance to explore some Egyptian tomb and it got me hooked on VR ever since.
#SGI #SiliconGraphics #RealityEngine #RealityEngine2 #EpcotCenter #VirtualReality #VR #90sNostalgia #90s #DisneyWorld #Epcot #Imagineering #Imagineer #SGIOnyx
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