[geeks] Daily Dose of Unix

[Kurt Huhn]

Bjorn Ramqvist <v53278 at g.haggve.se> wrote:

> It's the press that makes irrelevant statements about companies like SGI
> that clearly put these out of the game.
> Last monday I was reading a swedish computermag called "Computer
> Sweden". On the frontpage they had this small image of the new SGI Altix
> system, along with a headline like "SGI is pulling away from IRIX and
> MIPS-CPUs in favor for Linux and Itanium systems". Further down you
> could read the statement again "With their new Altix system they have
> replaced the MIPS-CPUs for the more powerful Itanium-CPUs, running Linux
> instead of IRIX".
> 
> Now do this guy have ANY clue what he's talking about?!?
> 

No.  This dude is obviously an idiot.  SGI's own roadmaps call for support
of two platforms - IA64/Linux and MIPS/Irix well out over the next ten
years.  It's not that hard to find, they get leaked out all the time.  I
belive it's called 'research', a term that seems foreign to most journalists
these days - regardless of subject matter.

> Seriously, if I'd met that guy in person, I'd be sure to kick his balls
> into orbit around the earth, then sit down and explain some very
> relevant things to him. Jerks.

I'd be sure to be up in orbit to give his balls an assist into the sun...

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Kurt                     
kurt at k-huhn.com