Unit 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 windows
- 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