[geeks] New SGI workstation

[Kurt Huhn]

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 08:00:21 +0200
Bjorn Ramqvist <v53278 at g.haggve.se> wrote:


> 
> "The new system should serve this niche well and help pay the bills as
> the company transitions to Intel's Itanic processor."
> 
> Is this the raw fact? Are they really moving away from IRIX+Mips, that
> once made them unique? I hope SOMEONE over there can think longer than
> his nose, cause the Altix is Just Another PeeCee(tm).
> 

That's apparently a true statement.  Unofficial word is that SGI wants to do
the Itanic thing and dump MIPS.  However, I don't know that I fully believe
it.  Rumor is that they also are going to stop developement of Irix.  I
*really* hope that's false - but SGI's management has made some rather
assinine decisions in the past, so anything is possible.

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