Winner, Name that Ware June 2026

The Ware for June 2026 is an SGI RM6-64 raster manager, from a KONA/InfiniteReality graphics system. Congrats to Christian for naming it! email me for your prize. This gem of a board was gifted to me by someone at SGI back when I worked there in…I want to say 1998? I even still have the name plate from my cubicle, from back before the ‘bunnie’ nickname really stuck… Back then, if you wanted to do graphics, SGI was the only game in town, but I joined the party late. Within six months of joining, most of the division I was in had jumped ship for these then little-known upstarts of nVidia and ATI. Lacking any connections and the office a ghost town (my office building was eventually acquired by another startup that’s become a household name, you might have heard of them: Google. Still really weird visiting friends that work on that campus…), I went back to the familiarity of MIT and got my PhD, and that was the last time I held a job in Silicon Valley. Ironically, my main project today…