> I lost track of the quotes. > > > > | --- 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. > > an end to irix and an end to MIPS on desktop and server platforms has no > big effect on MIPS processors. The big volume for MIPS is embedded, or so > I am told. > > For an interesting take on all this visit www.mipsabi.org
Uh, that site is dead, as of the end of this month. See the first link ("announcement"). Terry Lambert te...@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message