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SGI abandoned MIPS and IRIX, because there was no longer any economical reason to maintain them - x86 was faster and cheaper, and Windows was much more popular

by trasz 8y ago

SGI abandoned MIPS and IRIX, because there was no longer any economical reason to maintain them - x86 was faster and cheaper, and Windows was much more popular than Unix. SGI's main strenght was GPUs, not workstations.

pjmlp 8y ago
Where are those GPUs now?
- Fnoord 8y ago
  Nvidia. That's where a lot of the SGI engineers went to work.
  - trasz 8y ago
    And that's largely because SGI figured it way too late.