The Billion Dollar Code - Season 1 (2021)
Carsten and Juri break into a computing facility to use an SGI Onyx so that Juri can demonstrate his texture mapping techniques. They later purchase a larger Onyx system for the Terravision project.
The Onyx was a range of graphics systems SGI introduced in the mid 1990s. They were available as both desk-side and rack-mounted systems and were very popular for visualisation and CGI work.
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•The Billion Dollar Code - Season 1 (2021) •Congo (1995)
Carsten and Juri break into a computing facility to use an SGI Onyx so that Juri can demonstrate his texture mapping techniques. They later purchase a larger Onyx system for the Terravision project.
There are a number of big-iron SGI boxes in the TraviCom datacenter. I'm not entirely sure, they look like Onyx systems to me.
Pretty boxes to run past.
Blink and you miss it.
