How different would the world be if SGI was still around?
>>107583992didn't most of their engineers go to Nvidia and Ati?
>>107583992The better way to phrase this question would be what if NVIDIA went bankrupt and wasn't bailed out by SEGA and didn't win the lawsuits against S3, SGI, and 3DFX.
>>107584004Engineers are simply warriors fighting under the rule of a leader who sets the tone for their kingdom anon.
>>107584004NVIDIA acquired most of SGI's high end graphics division, about 80 or 90% iirc along with their low-end graphics division as a result of their settlement. The employees weren't given any choice.
>>107583992SGI is a name. The people who made it what it was went somewhere else.I swear, people get way too attached to company names.>Weird, why did Blizzard change? I can't imagine. What changed?All the people working there.
>>107584120>SGI is a name.A name with a markedly different mission statement than NVIDIA, one that may have been more awkward if it had suddenly decided on becoming an "AI" company mainly dealing with world governments and their intelligence spooks.
>>107583992berkeley bsd would rule over linux
