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.
SGI Onyx
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) •Disclosure (1994)
Congo (1995)
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.
Disclosure (1994)
The virtual reality system the company is prototyping is powered by an SGI Onyx.
