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Re: [TCLUG:3420] MIPS is dead



SGI's long term plan (for at least the last year +) has been to migrate to
Intel chips. Intel's delaying Merced has only prolonged the inevitable. SGI
has been against the ropes financially for a while, and they're biting the
bullet now, while they still can (Cray never did, until it was too late).
We were told that MIPS was being sold off last summer, but there were plans
for at least one more generation of MIPS chips in SGI products, until
Merced takes over.
SGI couldn't afford to compete against Intel, just like everyone else
except IBM and Sun. (And who knows how long Sun will last...) Even Apple
only has IBM to supply PPC chips, Motorola having bailed a while ago.

I guess the market prefers backward compatability to innovation...




serge@egel2.med.umn.edu (Serge M. Egelman) on 01/15/99 04:03:04 PM

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Subject:  [TCLUG:3420] MIPS is dead




hello all,
    I was just looking at slashdot, and it would appear that SGI is trying
to
sell 85% of MIPS.  This could be coincidende, but I find it rather odd that
this announcement was made less than a week after the release of their
first
Intel based systems.  I don't know what you people are thinking, but I
think
that would really suck if SGI sees NT (on Intel based systems) as their
only
long term option.  This might be more of an incentive for someone to make a
good distribution for SGI architecture systems.  What do you all think?


serge


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