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I want a SGI Personal Iris so much. :-) This is my dream computer for so long.

https://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/sgi-personal-ir...

I'd just like a sofa that looks like the Cray used in the movie Hackers...

The crays actually had cushions.

At my university I asked about these flashy new machines which I'd never have a chance to use, I was told they were slow. That was way back then.

They were the slowest SGI boxes, but a MIPS R3000 at 12.5 to 36Mhz would have been faster than the 33Mhz 386DX in a high end PC in 1998.

Edit: Things were moving pretty fast at the time, so I suppose if you bought one in 1998, it would have looked anemic when the 486 came out. Basically, if you bought anything and held it for 3-5 years, it was much further behind than the same situation today.

>> the 33Mhz 386DX in a high end PC in 1998.

1998's high end PC would have been a Pentium II 450MHz with 128MB of RAM, 10GB HD, and a NVIDIA card.

The 386/33 was high end in 1990

Ah, yes, typo on my part...it was 1988, not 98.

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