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Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Inc.

The company is a manufacturer of high-powered graphics workstations, and uses the Web as a means of publicizing and marketing its products, via its information service, Silicon Surf. SGI workstations have excellent graphics capabilities, and are often used by professional animators - much of the animation for the film Jurassic Park was created on them.

The Mosaic browser was originally developed on an SGI machine at NCSA, and Silicon Graphics were aware of Web technology from a very early stage in its development. SGI were one of the first commercial Web information providers.

Silicon Surf gathers together a lot of very useful technical information, which it packages in a bright and appealing form. It also includes information about free software, graphics and video clips and even runs programming competitions for its readers, with SGI workstations as prizes! Silicon Surf is much more than a mere marketing exercise, as testified by its popularity among Web users.

Spinning the Web by Andrew Ford
© 1995 International Thomson Publishing
© 2002 Andrew Ford and Ford & Mason Ltd
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