Re: IRIX freeware releases
From: Benjamin Gawert (bgawert_at_gmx.de)
Date: 11/30/03
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Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 17:48:40 +0100
Ivan Rayner wrote:
>> Hmm...I see no reason why the experience SGI had in the x86 market
>> should lead to a machine that is based on IA64 and Origin technology.
>
> The drive to support Linux started well before Altix was released.
When I remember right the x86 lesson for SGI started with Windows, not
Linux...
> From a hardware perspective, it was driven by a desire to start taking
> greater advantage of commodity parts. I expect our early use of PCs
> and IA64 workstations helped cement our relationship with Intel.
Well, IA64 is definitely not what one would understand as "comodity parts".
The only comodity parts in IA64 was the SGI 750 which was just a rebaged
intel OEM machine that SGI tried to sell with lousy gfx and for a higher
price than the competitors. Well, at least CPU-wise it certainly is still
the fastest workstation SGI made ;-)
> Of course there is little relationship between a PC or IA64
> workstation and an Altix wrt. hardware, but from a software point of
> view, there
> are clear ties.
Maybe, but with the same argument one could say that x86 and MIPS are the
same, because both platforms run Linux...
Benjamin
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