![]() ![]() ![]() One other problem SGI had, their IRIX was a notorious nightmare, which is part of their not being a well run company. (Plus wasn't SPARC hard to make fast due to an architectural mistake?) So by 1997 Sun and SGI had first mover advantages, but neither being well run companies they squandered them even before counting Intel's general excellence in microarchitectures and fabrication. ADDED: and serious I/O, we needed EISA and then PCI and its descendants. But it took some time for Intel machines to be competitive "big iron", say starting in the 486 days? Including running a serious UNIX(TM) or Linux. We've been told that the 1988 Sun 386i was quite successful due to its ability to run MS-DOS, and that the Sun 486i was canceled in 1990 because it was faster than the in-house SPARC equivalents. ![]()
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