[geeks] Daily Dose of Unix

[Dave McGuire]

On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 03:24 AM, Bjorn Ramqvist 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".

   Intel has a HUGE vested interest in major computer manufacturers...or 
even just reporters and columnists...saying nice things about Itaniums. 
  Their flagship new processor failed miserably in the marketplace, and 
its second generation isn't creating much of a hubbub so far.  A few 
well-placed dollars here and there and the average reporter will say 
anything you want them to say.  Far fetched?  Conspiracy theory?  Well, 
we all know how much money Intel put into the Itanium...and until their 
sales volumes go up, they will continue to be very expensive to 
produce.  Would you really put it past them?

   I've seen no direct evidence of anything like this happening, but 
frankly it's the only explanation I can come up with for some of the 
whacked-out statements (like the one you quoted above) that I see in 
the media.

          -Dave

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