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by sitkack 6y ago
https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/tech-history/silicon-revolution/loss-of-hewlettpackard-archive-a-wakeup-call-for-computer-historians https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/tech-history/...
When we look backwards in time, we see lots of tributaries that dried up for various reasons. That SGI workstation is still in your head, it is really up to us to copy and extend those concepts forwards in time.
That software is still sitting on a box of junk in someones basement somewhere, it just has to be found.
- m463 6y agoThat's a sad one too. it's hard to quantify the loss of an ecosystem.
- HeyLaughingBoy 6y agoThat software is sitting in an SGI in my basement :-)