On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Dave Fitch wrote:
> What I was a bit shocked at, is reading the specs for these SGI
> machines, they're intel CPUs!! Now I haven't really been keeping
> up with what SGI are doing these days, but I hadn't realised
> they'd stooped so low as to use intel processors.
SGI got assimilated by the borg last year or thereabouts
and started selling entry-level boxes with NT on to compete with
Sun's Ultra5. The results were less than spectacular and
SGI switched allegiences again when it was found that Linux
was proving to be a better bet on these new boxes than the
commercial MS product that had many many OEM addons required to
make it go.
I believe they are reducing production of their R* series
proecessors and even considering dropping IRIX. Dunno if this
is FUD or not though.....
rachel
Rachel Polanskis University of Western Sydney, Nepean
Senior UNIX Admin PO Box 10, Kingswood NSW 2747
Systems && Operations Information Technology Services, Kingswood
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