And sgi still could not compete, the basic problem was they were(at the begining) 5 years ahead of everyone else, but were 10 times as expensive, if that was wo

And sgi still could not compete, the basic problem was they were(at the begining) 5 years ahead of everyone else, but were 10 times as expensive, if that was worth it to you you would buy it, however due to the economy of scale there was a lot of money in those terrible "pc's" and not only were they were catching up quick they were a lot more inexpensive. So as a last ditch effort sgi moves to the intel arcitechure chips but now have nothing to differentiate them, still cost too much, and did not make the move to personal music players that saved apple. In hindsight, sgi as an independent computer manufacture could could never have won against the cheap fast hardware from intel vendors, but damn do I miss them, the hardware was always amazingly stylish, performant and cool, and they put a lot of effort into the irix desktop environment. I do have to admit that irix was weird as hell underneath, but I think that is the end result of any commercial operating system, windows, solaris, macos are all very weird underneath as well. I am a bsd guy at heart so that is my gold standard for a logical consistent os, but even linux is straightforward and simple compared to the commercial os's, something about being able to poke around in the innards make for better looking innards. is the best I can come up with.