14 May 2013, 17:38

Muirium wrote: Silicon Graphics was every kind of awesome. Losing them was one of the signs that the industry was going in a truly bad direction. Seeing what NeXT achieved once Apple bought them (and NeXT promptly seized control of the larger company) I can only imagine what SGI could have become if it survived.

I second this. This one thing happened to too many companies during the 80s-90s. Xerox, SG, Symbolics(Still active, but kinda like a ghost from the past). Imagine what would happen if computers, hell even technology in general(and everything else) diden't turn into a consumerist thing. I'm sick of buying old products that break all the time, and everything of quality today is just riced up(as in; it's expensive, let's add more expensive blingbling, because cheaper=better).Sorry for going way too off-topic.