<div dir="ltr">Here is the Registers take on this:<div><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/11/hpe_buys_sgi/">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/11/hpe_buys_sgi/</a></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,FreeSans,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,FreeSans,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px">As an aside:</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,FreeSans,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px">SGI languished, and its own Intel workstations built in response were shunned by the industry.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,FreeSans,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,FreeSans,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px">I remember getting one or two of these when I worked in the Special Effects industry in Soho.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,FreeSans,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px">THey made the best technical choices, but it ended up with a weird non-standard PC style machine,</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,FreeSans,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px">where as I remember the PCI slots were low voltage, so you had to buy SGI modem cards (etc)</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,FreeSans,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px">as off the shelf ones would not work.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,FreeSans,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,FreeSans,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,FreeSans,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,FreeSans,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,FreeSans,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 August 2016 at 02:43, Joe Landman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:landman@scalableinformatics.com" target="_blank">landman@scalableinformatics.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
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On 08/11/2016 07:22 PM, Christopher Samuel wrote:<br>
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So SGI is getting bought (yet again), this time by HP Enterprise.<br>
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Go off to class for a few hours and stuff happens ...<br>
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For their in memory analytics machines.  Go figure.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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