--- Terry Lambert <tlamb...@primenet.com> wrote: > > > > On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > > > > Can you please site a reference for this, other than > wishful > > > thinking by the Linux camp? > > > > Here's one: > > > http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,1015908,00.html > > > > But just about every trade rag covered it. > > Begging your pardon, but: > > > | --- With the help of Veritas Software Corp., SGI will work > to add > | key features of its Irix operating system to the Linux > platform. > | Currently, Irix runs on the MIPS platform. Once SGI switches > | entirely to Intel Corp.'s IA/64 platform, that will be the > end of > | Irix. > | > | SGI is also forming an alliance with NEC Corp. to increase > | its market share in Japan. > > These paragraphs are contradictory. It implies an end to > MIPS.
Contradictory how? NEC's a big PC manufacurer in Japan. If SGI is moving toward more conventional off-the-shelf components, they stand to gain tremendously by an alliance, both from manufacturing and distribution standpoints. > Nintendo 64 uses MIPS. > > It also seems a bit overzealous. So do the old and new Playstation models. The MIPS core is being manufactured by several companies: IDT alone has something like a dozen variants available with and without MMU, FP, 5000 vs 10000 core, etc. and is in far wider use than in just PCs and gaming consoles. I doubt if SGI machines abandoning MIPS processors would put much of a dent in MIPS' profitability. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
