If You had a Quarter-Million Dollars to Blow Back in 1993>>>

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Garcia

I think these were the first 'retail' computers to do 3D graphics, then NVidia ate their lunch

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SGI makers of the classic computer business blunder of committing the entire future of the product line to a new chip design before a working prototype existed.

NVidia wound up making SGI's graphics chips for some time thanks to a patent infringement lawsuit. I guess discounted chips beats cash.