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[BYTE 1993] Some Indy for you!

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Geoman
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https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1993-11/1993_11_BYTE_18-12_Advanced_Graphics#page/n235/mode/2up
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There's an article about the Reality Engine in the same issue.
To accentuate the special identity of the IRIS 4D/70, Silicon Graphics' designers selected a new color palette. The machine's coating blends dark grey, raspberry and beige colors into a pleasing harmony. ( IRIS 4D/70 Superworkstation Technical Report )
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foetz
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176mb pdf :shock:
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Nostalgia! page 254 - Olivetti Quaderno - I had one of those. Such a fun little thing :)
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foetz wrote: 176mb pdf :shock:

Musta been scanned at 300 dots per molecule...
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commodorejohn wrote: 300 dots per molecule...

:lol:
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jan-jaap wrote: There's an article about the Reality Engine in the same issue.


amazing :mrgreen:

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p.s.
I bought a paper copy of an old the Byte Magazine which talks about 68K unix ($5 on ebay), the first implementations. dr dobbs has a similar article. Byte Magazine issued also 2 marvelous articles about R5K, and R10K. Unfortunately I do not have them, but I read them in my university. They have a copy in their library.
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I used to sit in the bathroom with my SGI workstation marketing materials in 1995 for hours.... Out of order instruction set execution, branch prediction, R10k tech... it was orgasmic!
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foetz
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opcode wrote: I used to sit in the bathroom ... it was orgasmic!

maybe we don't wanna know more :P
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I like the letter from Fletcher Bonds on the letters page.. oh how things have changed.. NOT..
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MyDungeon() << :Fuel: :Octane2: :Octane2: :Octane2: :Octane: :Indy: MyLoft() << :540: :Octane: MyWork() << :Indy: :Indy: :O2: :O2: :O2: :Indigo: :Indigo:
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There's a Computer Chronicals episode on youtube that mentions SGI, I think it was the one on RISC processors.
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pentium
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I love reading these old computer magazines. Just reading up on the wacky stuff that you used to get for your machines. This particular issues has a two-page piece on Windows Accelerator Cards. :lol:
:Crimson: :Onyx: :O2000: :O200: :O200: :PI: :PI: :Indigo: :Indigo: :Indigo: :Octane: :O2: :1600SW: :Indigo2: :Indigo2: :Indigo2IMP: :Indigo2IMP: :Indy: :Indy: :Indy: :Cube:

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I would lust for an SGI machine from these pages alone, I think I must have read this BYTE about a thousand times before I could finally get my own humble Indy .. 'twas mostly a term for its useful life, alas, but I thoroughly enjoyed the distractions it had to offer. Man, what things could've been .. if SGI had kept up the pace .. ah well ..