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[typing] Silicon Graphics Incorporated, or SGI, is one of those computer companies that I always heard about growing up but never really knew much about. I mostly remember them being involved with Nintendo in the early- to mid-'90s, with SGI's machines aiding in the development of Donkey Kong Country's pre-rendered 3D graphics and the company helping develop the chipset for the Ultra 64, which became the Nintendo 64. There's a whole lot more to the story of SGI than that, of course, more than enough for its own dedicated video, but for this one, let's start in the year 1991. This was at the middle of SGI's golden age of being a market leader in graphics workstation innovation. They served a niche professional market, sure, but it was a lucrative one, making them over $900 million annually, and their machines ruled supreme in everything from computer aided design to blockbuster movie pro