- bmonkey325 12 days agoUnit costs were simply too high. Sparc and mips and PPC couldn’t sell in volume s enough to justify the relentless improvement Intel could. Coupled with Unix style costs. SGI charged me $2500 for its SDK. Sky high prices for motif vs windowsreply
- KODust 11 days agoThat's the problem right there -- SGI should have given anyone who asked the SDK and a free coffee mug. Apple had a similar attitude (MPW was something like $2500 at one point), and it almost killed them -- CodeWarrior really saved their bacon during the PowerPC transition.reply
- People who wanted a Unix workstation could build one cheaply on commodity hardware with Linux
- SGI, HP, Sun, and others didn’t adapt to Linux’s disruption quickly enough. So much fucking about with Itanium.
- NT became good enough such that if you didn’t care whether it was Unix, you could actually use Windows.
- Mac OS X — the only Unix that’s ever managed to be user friendly in the true meaning of the term — ate the rest of the market. (You _could_ build a version of Unix that has a nice GUI and isn’t the Mac, but people are so wedded to X11’s 30 years of misfeatures.)