Seems to me someone is probably *moving* the SGI, and thought it would make
a cute photo. Mr. Truck just hasn't shown up yet.
--John
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org]On
Behalf Of Ross Archer
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 22:01
To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Fw: Sign of the times :(
Brian Chase wrote:
>
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Robert F. Schaefer wrote:
> > > In news:3DAC9616.5EB1C69C_at_pacbell.net, yi ge mei you wei ba wrote:
>
> > > > Looks like california plates, but where ? I'd go grab it for you
> > > > if I knew where it was .... no street signs in the photo :-)
> > >
> > > Area Code: 818
> > > Prefix: 762
> > > Location: North Hollywood
> > >
> > > Well this is as close as I can peg it. Wish someone would salvage it.
> >
> > In reference to:
> > http://216.102.153.252/sgi.jpg
> >
> > For the graphically or bandwidth challenged, it's an Onyx sitting beside
a
> > dumptser. Possibly a troll, but if I was withing a half-days' drive I'd
> > spend the weekend driving sidestreets to be sure...
>
> The url isn't working for me, but it's probably not a troll. There are
> quite a few large vfx and animation shops out here. I might be able to
> identify the area if the pic was available. Nearly everyone in the
> movie business is dumping, or have already dumped, their non-essential
> SGI gear.
I'm curious now. If they're dumping all this SGI gear,
what on earth are they replacing it with?
Surely they still need ultra-high-performance multi-CPU
systems to render and animate with. Or not?
Maybe it's the little shops doing the dumping, which are
hurting for work enough that SGI is just too expensive, and
they make do with inferior tools (e.g. PCs and PC software)
to reduce expenses?
I still can't visualize a major studio settling for anything
less than the real thing (tm).
-- Ross
>
> -brian.
Received on Tue Oct 15 2002 - 21:14:01 BST
