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Re: [TCLUG:3420] MIPS is dead



At 04:03 PM 1/15/99 , you wrote:
>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?

I think the new boxes look interesting, but I'm a bit aggravated with the
amount
of time/money/effort I put into learning Irix and buying up that Indy2 for
home....