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SGI dominated the workstation graphic market back in the day. Steve Jobs wanted NeXT to essentially be SGI. I have a soft spot for the Octane. https://en.wik

SGI dominated the workstation graphic market back in the day. Steve Jobs wanted NeXT to essentially be SGI. I have a soft spot for the Octane. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Octane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Octane The G4 cube, was Apple version of it whe when Jobs returned to Apple. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube

pjmlp 2y ago
Kind of, SGI never had something like Renderman.
- ofrzeta 2y ago
  They had Blue Moon Rendering Tools (BMRT), though :)
  - pjmlp 2y ago
    I wasn't aware of it, as per Wikipedia article it looks like the predecessor for Renderman.
    - p_l 2y ago
      The other way around. Renderman is the original, BMRT was mostly Renderman compatible.
justinator 2y ago
The G4 Cube wasn't a callback to the NeXTcube?
- pjmlp 2y ago
  It was.
- iwontberude 2y ago
  Maybe so and NeXTcube totally seems like a nod to the design of Thinking Machines’ CM-2
p_l 2y ago
Depends on exactly what segment of the graphic market, it seems to me that some segments had quite big Sun presence, and early HDTV had the unlikely straggler-survivor with Symbolics.
kalleboo 2y ago
Pixar also originally sold hardware, also cube-shaped https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixar_Image_Computer https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixar_Image_Computer