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SGIs were the first Unix systems I used. We had a lab of them in school. They worked wonderfully for me and I never lost any files on them. There was also a rea
by lasereyes136 5y ago
SGIs were the first Unix systems I used. We had a lab of them in school. They worked wonderfully for me and I never lost any files on them. There was also a really good Unix Sysadmin that maintained them and was available if you had any questions.
- postexitus 5y agowhat kind of low bar is that "never losing any files" - what files did you lose in other systems?
- sgerenser 5y agoThe contemporary consumer OSes of the time, MacOS 8 and Windows 95/98 were pretty crash prone back then. If you weren’t religious about hitting command-S as your worked it definitely wasn’t unusual to lose your work.
- postexitus 5y agoOk more like, never using unsaved work. I was horrified thinking some old school OSes ate files from FS left and right.
- peckrob 5y agoI remember seeing an SGI Octane [0] at Comdex. I think it was 1997 or 98? I was still in high school, but I remember thinking that it was just the absolute coolest thing ever. When my home computer could barely play DOOM, this thing was just blowing up over here with beautiful video animations that didn't stutter at all. Things my PC wouldn't be capable of until a few years after that. Not to mention it just looked cool. In an era of beige boxes, you had this striking blue cube. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Octane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Octane