SGI is Silicon Graphics - they were the pioneers in 3D animation especially for the movies, research etc. Jurassic Park was entirely rendered in SGI workstation

SGI is Silicon Graphics - they were the pioneers in 3D animation especially for the movies, research etc. Jurassic Park was entirely rendered in SGI workstations. These workstations were incredibly powerful and extremely expensive (think > $250,000 for the higher end gear in the 1990s) but pretty amazing. Also, for the time it had very advanced user interfaces. SGI Irix was the name of the OS which ran on these machines. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo3lUw9GUJA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo3lUw9GUJA