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// of SGI offline unless relevant to keitai-l. Thanks.
Who says SGI had nothing to do with gaming 3D?
> I agree wholeheartedly. When Sony launched their first PlayStation
Let's start there. The PS1's CPU is a MIPS R3000. And you remember
who made that?
> Silicon Graphics (remember them) could have been a major player in the
> gaming market,
How? They were never a consumer products company. They had technology
though - anyone remember Project Reality? Who do you think developed
the 3D chipset for the Nintendo 64?
I used to know a lot of ex-SGI folks working at nVidia as well.
3D is a suck market. Too many brains, too much marketing,
not enough $ to go round. What went wrong? why didn't it take off?
Why was VRML such a joke? No, stop, I've heard it already. Anyway -
> 10 years later, companies like Sony and Sega and Nintendo
> have a combined market cap that's 10X of SGI's.
Combined? I'm willing to bet on the log scale it's closer to 1000x.
-chris.
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Received on Mon Jul 23 04:53:07 2001