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The SGI Indy "pizza box" was also a VFX and 3D animation classic in that era.

• bluedino 5y ago
  The Indy didn't have any 3D hardware in it.
  • jeffbee 5y ago
    Really wondering how the Indy has this hagiographic reputation. It was, as far as I could tell at the time, the slowest and generally worst workstation you could buy. People bought them because they were waiting for unix technical software to be ported to Windows NT on x86 and didn't want to spend $100k per seat on RISC workstations they knew were already obsolete.
    • fit2rule 5y ago
    • anthk 5y ago
      >Windows NT on x86 and didn't want to spend $100k per seat on RISC workstations they knew were already obsolete. And Linux. https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6011 https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6011 Much faster than SGI machines, zillions times cheaper, ridiculously cheaper. If you set the KDE theme to Motif or the SGI Indigo theme (QT allowed it) you had a pretty Irix copycat with a Slackware 8 CD pack. With DRI and 2.4.5 from the extra/ directory it was a beast. https://slackware.uk/slackware/slackware-8.0/ANNOUNCE.TXT https://slackware.uk/slackware/slackware-8.0/ANNOUNCE.TXT They used Red Hat, ok, but that Slackware release from 2001 was pretty close to their setup. Computers at Industrial Light Magic: https://www.linuxjournal.com/files/linuxjournal.com/linuxjournal/articles/060/6011/6011s1.html https://www.linuxjournal.com/files/linuxjournal.com/linuxjou...
  • theonething 5y ago
    No, it didn't, but the R5000 CPU had an enhanced instruction set that could do 3D rendering in software pretty well at the time. We used them at the VFX software shop I was interning at during those times.