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What Moore's Law giveth...
May 08, 2006
... it also taketh away. The once-mighty Silicon Graphics has finally been vanquished by commoditization.
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Hi, Again Nicholas
I don't pretty sure, but It seems me about: The innovator's dilemma. Don't you think?
Bye!
Orlando
Posted by: Orlando Agostinho at May 8, 2006 12:10 PM
Am I correct in remembering a rather shameless plug in Jurassic Park 1 where the fat geek was surrounded by a whole bank of SG workstations even though breakthrough dinosaur rendering was reportedly done by IL&M on Sun gear? Or was it the other way around?
Oh, who cares, nowadays...
Posted by: gianni at May 9, 2006 06:05 AM
Isn't Google's campus an old SGI campus?
Posted by: skeptical at May 9, 2006 10:36 AM
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