[geeks] Linc is cool

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Sgi is going out of buisness in the next 5 yrs unless they manage a
massive turnaround, right?  Great.  I own an origin system.  What do you
recommend I do for an os for it in 6 years?
	Nick

On Tue, 15 May 2001, David Michaud wrote:

> "Joshua D. Boyd" wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 15 May 2001, David Michaud wrote:
> > 
> > > Brian Hechinger wrote:
> > > > well, it looks like Linux is lagging behing NetBSD in the SGI/MIPS arena, but
> > > > it doesn't matter since nobody is working on the 4d boxen.  looks like it's
> > > > time for me to start.
> > >
> > > I'm baffled as to why one would want to cripple a functional machine by
> > > putting linux on it. Put linux on a Silicon Graphics machine, and it
> > > might as well just be a peecee.
> > 
> > You might consider asking SGI, who has Linux running on an Origin2000 if
> > they feel they are now in posession of a plain old PC.
> > 
> 
> I might point out that the O2k that they had running linux had 256 R10k
> processors, and after running a number of FFT benchmarks, determined
> that it has equivilent performance to a similarly configured 32
> processor O2k running IRIX...
> 
> -Dave
> 
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