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SGI's competitors ( including Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard and IBM ) were also able to bring to market 3D hardware, supported by extensions made to the PHIGS standard.
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In 1992, SGI decided to clean up and reform IRIS GL and made the bold move of allowing the resulting OpenGL API to be cheaply licensed by SGI's competitors, and set up an industry-wide consortium to maintain the OpenGL standard ( the OpenGL Architecture Review Board ).
SGI's and including
Though CXFS supports having a heterogeneous environment ( including Solaris, Linux, Mac OS X, AIX and Windows ), either SGI's IRIX Operating System or Linux is required to be installed on the host which acts as the metadata broker.
SGI's and were
Until late 2006, they were also used in many of SGI's computer products.
SGI's first generation products, starting with the IRIS 1000 ( Integrated Raster Imaging System ) series of high-performance graphics terminals, were based on the Motorola 68000 family of microprocessors.
Six beta-test units of the 1400 workstation were produced, and the first production unit ( SGI's first commercial computer ) was shipped to Carnegie-Mellon University's Electronic Imaging Laboratory in 1984.
As 3D graphics became more popular in television and film during this time, these systems were responsible for establishing much of SGI's reputation.
Once inexpensive PCs began to have graphics performance close to the more expensive specialized graphical workstations which were SGI's core business, SGI shifted its focus to high performance servers for digital video and the Web.
SGI's MIPS-based systems were not to be superseded until the launch of the Itanium 2-based Altix servers and Prism workstations some time later.
All were based on Intel processors ; the first series ( 320 and 540 ) used SGI's ARCloader PROM and Cobalt video chipset, the remainder were essentially standard PC's.
The other Visual Workstations were built to compete with the new Intel processor based workstations that were considerably cheaper than SGI's line of MIPS workstations.
SGI's and also
In C ++, the Standard Template Library ( STL ) provides the template class, which implements a sorted set using a binary search tree ; SGI's STL also provides the template class, which implements a set using a hash table.
But Intel's Pentium Pro overtook the performance of RISC designs and also SGI's graphics business shrunk.
The 320 and 540 also used the on board Cobalt video adapter, which was SGI's proprietary graphics chipset.
SGI's and market
Further, SGI's premature announcement of its migration from MIPS to Itanium and its abortive ventures into IA-32 architecture systems ( the Visual Workstation line, the ex-Intergraph Zx10 range and the SGI 1000-series Linux servers ) damaged SGI's credibility in the market.
SGI's market capitalization dwindled from a peak of over seven billion dollars in 1995 to just $ 120 million at the time of delisting.
Conventional wisdom holds that SGI's core market has traditionally been Hollywood visual effects studios.
Prior to the mid-90s different platforms had used various custom solutions, but SGI's power in the graphics market, combined with the efforts of the OpenGL Architecture Review Board ( ARB ), led to the rapid standardization of OpenGL across the majority of the graphics workstation market.
SGI's and 3D
OpenGL evolved from ( and is very similar in style to ) SGI's earlier 3D interface, IrisGL.
The addition of 3D graphic capabilities to PCs, and the ability of clusters of Linux-and BSD-based PCs to take on many of the tasks of larger SGI servers, ate into SGI's core markets.
In the 1990s SGI's OpenGL was the de-facto standard for 3D computer graphics.
Until the introduction of SGI Octane, SGI Indigo² was SGI's most powerful desktop solution for 3D, visualization and high performance computing environments.
SGI's and hardware
No effort was made to take advantage of SGI's advanced graphics hardware, and like many other ports the game was rendered entirely in software.
As TAV only ran on the Silicon Graphics platform it enjoyed significant performance advantages over software-only based solutions due to its use of SGI's specialized graphics hardware supporting IrisGL, a pre-cursor to OpenGL.
SGI's and by
In fact, SGI's largest revenue has always been generated by government and defense applications, energy, and scientific and technical computing.
The format was championed by SGI's Cosmo Software ; when SGI restructured in 1998 the division was sold to Platinum Technologies, which was then taken over by Computer Associates, which did not develop or distribute the software.
The Elan Graphics architecture was superseded by SGI's Extreme Graphics architecture on Indigo2 models and eventually by the IMPACT graphics architecture in 1995.
The Extreme Graphics architecture was superseded by SGI's IMPACT graphics architecture in 1995.
SGI's and made
Silicon Graphics, Inc. ( SGI )- made workstations, i. e., SGI's high-end computer graphics desktop machines.
SGI's and standard
In another sense, the ARC standard is based on SGI's ARCS, which was used as a basis for generating the ARC standard itself, although ARC calls for a little-endian system while ARCS system is big-endian on all MIPS-based systems.
Despite various inconsistencies between the two, both SGI's ARCS implementations and the ARC standard share many commonalities ( such as device naming, calling conventions, etc.
SGI's and .
The IRIX name was first used around the time of release 3. 0 of the operating system for SGI's IRIS 4D series of workstations and servers, in 1988.
SGI's own Extent File System ( EFS ) replaced the System V filesystem.
These 32-bit CPUs formed the basis of their company through the 1980s, used primarily in SGI's series of workstations and later Digital Equipment Corporation DECstation workstations and servers.
Operating systems ported to the architecture include SGI's IRIX, Microsoft's Windows NT ( until v4. 0 ), Windows CE, Linux, BSD, UNIX System V, SINIX, QNX, and MIPS Computer Systems ' own RISC / os.
With SGI's decision to transition to the Itanium and IA32 architectures, use of MIPS processors on the desktop has now disappeared almost completely.
The R8000 powered SGI's POWER Challenge servers in the mid 1990s and later became available in the POWER Indigo2 workstation.
During SGI's ownership of MIPS, the company introduced the R8000 in 1994 and the R10000 in 1996 and a follow up the R12000 in 1997.
They both later worked on extending Linux for MIPS to run on SGI's Indy computers and wrote the original X drivers for the system.
Later notable employees include Joseph DiNucci, VP of Marketing, who recruited Bob Lutz, then president of Chrysler onto SGI's board.
SGI produced a broad range of MIPS-based workstations and servers during the 1990s, running SGI's version of UNIX System V, now called IRIX.
SGI's first Itanium-based system was the short-lived SGI 750 workstation, launched in 2001.
The porting of Maya to Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows further eroded the low end of SGI's product line.
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