On Jan 19, 5:21am, dmanddmer wrote:
> Subject: Re: linus.linux.sgi.com
> Personally, since SGI made the questionable decision to port to NT, I
> wish they would commit to AMD's processors instead of Intels.
SGI couldn't. SGI had to replace so much of the IA/440xx chipset that there
had to be a prettty big agreement with Intel covering a lot of issues,
machines, processors, and markets to allow SGI to, for example, implement
the frontside bus in their own chipset. Don't forget all those Co'op
marketing dollars too. -dong ^dong -dong ^^dong
> Porting to NT alone is probably not enough to save the company. It
> didn't work for Intergraph.
Yeah, but Intergraph is lame so they had that working against them too. :)
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