[geeks] THIS. MAKES. ME. SICK.

[geeks at sunhelp.org]

Nah, you're not going to piss us linux geeks off.  We'll just tell you to
quit whineing and fix it.
	Nick

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Brian Hechinger wrote:

> > What.  They have to stay competitive, and the fact is that many (most?)
> > places the buy highend Crays also would like to be able to install an
> > array of cheaper setups for different working groups.
> 
> hey, SGI isn't doing too well these days.  at least they didn't just slap a
> Cray logo on a big Origin box.
> 
> > Plus, for some tasks (say, rendering visualizations for simulations run
> > on the SV2), a cluster really is just as good.
> >
> > At least they didn't insult us by using Intel hardware.
> 
> the Alpha is actually a pretty slick CPU.  not vector mind you, but how much
> call is there for big vector machines these days? (Dave or James?)
> 
> the Linux bit doesn't exactly thrill me, but that's just SGI's adoption of
> Linux all around that we won't seem to be able to avoid.  i'm not going to
> say any more, i always tend to piss of the Linux crowd.
> 
> -brian
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