> SGI's hardware was cutting-edge and exotic. This was their downfall, trying to scale out adoption with esoteric hardware. I remember being quoted $18k ish

> SGI's hardware was cutting-edge and exotic. This was their downfall, trying to scale out adoption with esoteric hardware. I remember being quoted $18k ish for memory upgrade on a O2 or origin, same amount of memory I had just bought for $500 for an intel Linux box at home. Sure, it wasn’t apples to apples, but I remember thinking very clearly that this wasn’t going to end well for SGI.