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Re: [felix@berlin.ccc.de: Microsoft stellt SGI-Chef ein]



Martin Schröder wrote:
 
> On 1999-08-27 14:22:32 +0200, Felix von Leitner wrote:
> > Thus spake Joerg-Olaf Schaefers (j.schaefers@gmx.at):
> > > > SGI will Geruechten zufolge sogar
> > > > IRIX einstampfen und gegen Linux ersetzen.
> > > Das sind keine Geruechte, das war bekannt.
> >
> > Daß es gegen Linux ersetzt werden soll ist nicht 
> > offiziell publiziert.

Nein, noch nicht ... ich die ich meinte allerdings nicht
IRIX, sondern die MIPS-Prozessoren, sorry!

> ACK. SGI hat bisher nicht verlauten lassen, daß sie ihre 
> Mips-Reihe auslaufen lassen.
[..]

Meine Informationen stammen von Anfang 1998. Damals gab
es mehrere Artikel, da3 SGI in mittlerer Zukunft auf 
Intel-Chips setzt. Z.B. diesen:

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http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,20947,00.html

Silicon Graphics scraps MIPS plans 
By Michael Kanellos and Dawn Kawamoto
Staff Writers, CNET News.com
April 9, 1998, 12:40 p.m. PT 

Silicon Graphics (SGI) has quietly scrapped ambitious 
plans for its MIPS processors and is now following a 
much more limited road map calling for fewer design
improvements, according to sources close to SGI. 

The last major MIPS release for servers and workstations 
is scheduled for 1999, sources said. SGI will continue 
to boost processor speeds and incorporate the chip 
in its high-end computers, but will likely start the 
phasing out the processor in 2001 as 64-bit chips from 
Intel become more pervasive and powerful. 

The shift in plans results from a variety of economic
and technological pressures. SGI has seen sales and
profits drop in the past few years as sales of
Windows-Intel workstation computers have climbed.
The slide has made it more difficult to support the
MIPS platform, according to analysts. 
[...]
The move away from MIPS will be a milestone for Silicon 
Graphics. Until recently, SGI and Sun were the last two 
major enterprise computing vendors to exclusively use their
own chips and operating systems. Last year, both companies 
entered into limited alliances to port their products to 
the Intel platform. SGI also cut a development deal with 
Microsoft. 
[...]
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MfG 
 Olaf