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As a huge fan of SGI (and MIPS, prior to their rise) I like to project SGI's wonderful hardware into the realm of laptops. It was a huge surprise that the Frui
by aa-jv 2y ago
As a huge fan of SGI (and MIPS, prior to their rise) I like to project SGI's wonderful hardware into the realm of laptops.
It was a huge surprise that the Fruit Company were the ones to come out with really robust, affordable (at the time) Unix-based laptops .. all the issues with Irix would have become relatively irrelevant had SGI built the laptop and had their Linux team work on the case.
Ah well, an alternative timeline I will visit when the technology to do so becomes more widely available. ;)
- rbanffy 2y agoWell… in the end SGI licensed their secret graphics sauce to Nvidia (IIRC) and you can get Linux running on pretty much any x86 laptop. You can even run MaXX Desktop. Or FreeBSD for extra Unixness. I imagine what they’d look like today. Now sure how to translate their 90’s graphics language to the 2020’s though. Hard edges, rich textures, and colorful machines.
- aa-jv 2y agoIf there were ever a productive use of AI, reviving the SGI design aesthetic for the /r/cyberdeck crowd is it .. ;)