From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 16 10:17: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB28814E14 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 10:17:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA21891; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 10:17:19 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpdAAA9Xa4JQ; Mon Aug 16 10:17:12 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA16010; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 10:17:11 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199908161717.KAA16010@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite To: rminnich@acl.lanl.gov (Ronald G. Minnich) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 17:17:11 +0000 (GMT) Cc: vev@michvhf.com, tlambert@primenet.com, Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Ronald G. Minnich" at Aug 16, 99 10:50:57 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I lost track of the quotes. > > > > | --- With the help of Veritas Software Corp., SGI will work to add > > > | key features of its Irix operating system to the Linux platform. > > > | Currently, Irix runs on the MIPS platform. Once SGI switches > > > | entirely to Intel Corp.'s IA/64 platform, that will be the end of > > > | Irix. > > > | > > > | SGI is also forming an alliance with NEC Corp. to increase its > > > | market share in Japan. > > > These paragraphs are contradictory. It implies an end to MIPS. > > an end to irix and an end to MIPS on desktop and server platforms has no > big effect on MIPS processors. The big volume for MIPS is embedded, or so > I am told. > > For an interesting take on all this visit www.mipsabi.org Uh, that site is dead, as of the end of this month. See the first link ("announcement"). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message