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mcguire at neurotica.com writes:

>On August 3, Dan Sikorski wrote:
>> Well, I'm quite sure that it will be some time after SGI goes down the
>> same toilet.  So, we're looking at something as soon as a year
>> hopefully.

>  We'll see.  When the government labs stop buying
>multi-hundred-million-dollar computer installations from them because
>they've gone to wimpy Intel processors, they'll figure it out real
>quick-like.  I could be all wet, but I really don't see SGI going away
>anytime soon.  And only partially because people have been predicting
>the "imminent doom" of SGI for at least the past six years.

That's what a lot of people thought about Alpha too...

(sigh)

But I agree with you - SGI's niche has become very small, but it's there,
and there's no competition.

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