nerd rage…. rising….
I worked at SGI during their glory years. They were incredible machines at the time, seeing as how they invented hardware acceleration of 3D rendering. Unfortunately, like so many companies, they settled into rent-seeking– blindly confident that their tech was so sophisticated that people who needed it (Hollywood, military simulation, oil & gas visualization, etc) would never be able to go anywhere else.
Then 3DFX came along, said “hold my beer”, and proceeded to eat their lunch. Silicon Graphics, a multinational titan of Silicon Valley, was murdered by ten people in a garage in a matter of months. A pretty amazing case of disruption.
