From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 16 10:26: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.its.rpi.edu (mail1.its.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F4EE154C7 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 10:25:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail1.its.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA55290; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 13:26:03 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199908161619.JAA14130@usr04.primenet.com> References: <199908161619.JAA14130@usr04.primenet.com> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 13:26:24 -0400 To: Terry Lambert From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite Cc: Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 4:19 PM +0000 8/16/99, Terry Lambert wrote: >Begging your pardon, but: > > >| --- 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. > >Nintendo 64 uses MIPS. I don't think those paragraphs are all that contradictory. They just imply the end of SGI selling MIPS-based workstations running IRIX. Nintendo can keep using MIPS, and my guess is that Nintendo is not running IRIX on their machines. What is the contradiction? I'm making the assumption here that Nintendo sells more Nintendo 64 games than SGI sells workstations, and thus SGI dropping MIPS for workstations does *-NOT-* imply the end of MIPS. It only implies the end of IRIX. In any case, even if it is contradictory in some sense, there is no question that SGI is *claiming* that they are all buddy-buddy with linux, and thus they are already comfortable with gnu-licensed software. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message