Silicon Graphics Professional IRIS 4D/50GT

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Date Introduced
1988
Photographer
Richards, Mark
Dimensions
overall: 47 in x 24 in x 27 1/2 in
Manufacturer
Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI)
Credit Line
Gift of NASA Ames Research Center
Copyright Owner
© Mark Richards
Location
United States
Keywords
Workstations
Object ID
102626604, 102719921, 102719922
Speed
8MHz
Memory Type
Semiconductor
Memory Size
4MB
Memory Width
32-bit
Cost
$74,000

For Silicon Graphics, the Iris 4D series marked a shift from Motorola microprocessors to RISC ("reduced instruction set computing") processors built by MIPS Technologies, Inc. Five years later, in 1992, SGI acquired MIPS for $333M. But in 1998 it abandoned MIPS processors in favor of Intel’s Itanium.