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Comment by bdbdbdb

11 hours ago

Huh, I had no idea sgi was not pc hardware. I just assumed they made PCs with their own OS

Back then there were quite a few competing architectures and UNIXes to go with them. SGI MIPS with Irix, IBM had POWER with AIX and later Linux, DEC had Alpha Tru64 UNIX and VMS (not a UNIX), Sun SPARC with Solaris, HP had HA-RISC with HP-UX. Only SPARC and POWER survived for long and only POWER survived until today as far as I know. Solaris of course lives on in various forms. The old UNIXes I guess mostly do not, being displaced almost entirely by Linux and BSDs.

They made a couple of Intel boxes in the very late 90s / very early 00s, but the company was already on the way out by that point.