[geeks] New SGI workstation

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 10:30:28AM +0200, Frank Van Damme wrote:
> On Thursday 10 July 2003 08:00, Bjorn Ramqvist wrote:
> > "The new system should serve this niche well and help pay the bills as
> > the company transitions to Intel's Itanic processor."
> 
> Exit SGI I guess...
> 
> > Is this the raw fact? Are they really moving away from IRIX+Mips, that
> > once made them unique? I hope SOMEONE over there can think longer than
> > his nose, cause the Altix is Just Another PeeCee(tm).
> 
> Philosofical question: what makes a PeeCee a PeeCee? The fact it has an Intel
> cpu? I deem it possible to base a crap ide-based workstation with a shared
> bus architecture and low memory bandwidth and all sorts of flaky hardware
> around a Mips cpu, no?

Effectively, an Onyx RE2 is an intel based computer, especially if it is
a 1xR4.4k, going on what supplies the major crunch power, that is.  I am
of course refering to the large numbers of Intel i860s in the machine.