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Silicon Graphics Thread - SGI
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I'll get this out of the way quickly. Donkey Kong Country is the finest Silicon Graphics product.
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IIRC the fat Playstation 2 case design was based on a Silicon Graphics machine. That was a pretty dope design.
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The first time I experienced good VR was on the Onyx2, it looks like that except it's black. The VR was cool, it had 6DOF and room-tracking.
The PS2 took its design from the Atari Falcon microbox prototype, down to having a stand to keep it upright and reduce the footprint of the machine.
The microbox was probably inspired by the Sharp x68000.
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They apparently found the source code for Turok on one of these SGI machines
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No he gutted the machine's chassis to make an Arr-Gee-Bee gaming rig for reddit golds.
just kidding
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Ok now I feel super stupid, I bought a PS2 at launch and had no idea it stood up on it's side.
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I remember when movie critics claimed that the GUI used in Jurassic Park was apparently not real and that Stephen Spielberg is a boomer. Boy would I laugh if they actually saw the OS in action lmao.
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They sold an official stand to add stability, making it even more like a microbox.
It pleases me that the stand uses the same gradient as the PS2 logo.
It wasn't really an OS, it just ran in a window, but it was included in Irix and could be found in the folder with the other weird tech demos they shipped.
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Even ignoring the pure grunt contained within, SGI made some sexy boxes back in the day ... which is why I find it a bit odd that SGI's keyboards and monitors had such a strong early '90s Taiwanese IBM-PC clone vibe. 
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It was a response to his comment and I'm so used to people calling it an operating system. I also blanked on wtf a file manager was called, sorry about that.
Even ignoring the pure grunt contained within, SGI made some sexy boxes back in the day ... which is why I find it a bit odd that SGI's keyboards and monitors had such a strong early '90s Taiwanese IBM-PC clone vibe.
The monitors and keyboards had some effort to spice up their look, there were small dots in the plastic that made it look like the linoleum floor of a public bathroom (edit: ) on a ferry.
edit: the Indy had the same thing going, look at the picture in the op, but it was more pronounced because it had some color backing it.
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Point is, movie critics were dumbasses and didn’t know Jackshit about SGI’s file manager. They thought it was some stereotype Hollywood shit.
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It's one of my dreams as a digital artyfarty boy to own a working SGI machine someday, mad bonus points if it's not wiped and has some devkit and 3d modeling software still in it.