[rescue] UnOracle patches for Solaris

Mike Meredith very at zonky.org
Fri May 21 17:53:53 CDT 2010


On Thu, 20 May 2010 16:21:25 -0400, Andrew Jones wrote:
> Strangely enough, the E10k arch was derived from Cray technology that
> SGI sold to Sun. It was an outgrowth of the Cray4d stuff.  Gotta
> wonder how that deal ever happened.

Stupidity ? However it wasn't making money for Cray themselves, so SGI
may have felt that selling the loss making division to Sun made good
sense without also realising that this gave Sun a big boost in large
systems.



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