[geeks] New SGI workstation

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 10:28:17AM -0400, Kurt Huhn wrote:

> That's apparently a true statement.  Unofficial word is that SGI wants to do
> the Itanic thing and dump MIPS.  However, I don't know that I fully believe
> it.  Rumor is that they also are going to stop developement of Irix.  I
> *really* hope that's false - but SGI's management has made some rather
> assinine decisions in the past, so anything is possible.

I keep worrying that their XFS effort for Linux, and some of the patches
they've done for that OS, are a feasibility study for moving to Linux
wholesale.

Remember that bean counters and board members don't give a damn about
technology, they only think about the bottom line.


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