> SGI's workstations offered tons of internal bandwidth that commodity PC hardware couldn't touch until the early 2000s. It's funny, there was a brief and very

> SGI's workstations offered tons of internal bandwidth that commodity PC hardware couldn't touch until the early 2000s. It's funny, there was a brief and very painful period where you could point to things SGI's hardware could still do better than everyone else, but it was a rapidly shrinking category of things and everyone could see they were doomed. It was made more painful by the totally ineffectual ways they attempted to save themselves. Proprietary NT hardware! Itanium! Totally random Linux stuff!