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It started out as a hedge against their own hardware being an impediment to sales, then ended up being their entire business. I guess it was a good hedge to hav

It started out as a hedge against their own hardware being an impediment to sales, then ended up being their entire business. I guess it was a good hedge to have!

protomyth 10y ago
Considering they had NeXTSTEP release versions running on x86, PA-RISC, SPARC, and its original home 68000, they did pretty well. I do wonder why the MIPS chips were ignored.
- rvense 10y ago
  Maybe SGI didn't want to play ball...
  - protomyth 10y ago
    Probably, but it just seems rather odd since MIPS had an open system spec and Windows NT had been ported to it.