Through most of grad school, I had two SGIs on my desk (well one was under). Both were SGI Octane's, still my favorite machine of all time. But it was pretty cl

Through most of grad school, I had two SGIs on my desk (well one was under). Both were SGI Octane's, still my favorite machine of all time. But it was pretty clear by the time I got done that SGI was falling behind, and they should NEVER have shipped a WindowsNT workstation.