cosmos wrote in
news:ltedna7mSfGwi2PZnZ2dnUVZ_sOdnZ2d@speakeasy.ne t:

>
> http://www.sgi.com/support/mips_irix.html
>
> Another Linux success story!
>

Hey, your alive Someone said Cosmos faded away into the sunset...

-ks

cosmos wrote:
> http://www.sgi.com/support/mips_irix.html
>
> Another Linux success story!

Wassup Cos' ? Good to hear from you!
Yeah, it's tuxed-up for sure!

Will that prevent my applications from running on MIPS/IRIX today? I'm
scawed :-D

-ks wrote:
> cosmos wrote in
> news:ltedna7mSfGwi2PZnZ2dnUVZ_sOdnZ2d@speakeasy.ne t:
>
>> http://www.sgi.com/support/mips_irix.html
>>
>> Another Linux success story!
>>
>
> Hey, your alive Someone said Cosmos faded away into the sunset...

For some reason, I read your comment as "Someone said Cosmos faded away
into the Usenet".

I think I need to spend less time reading newsgroups....

cosmos wrote:

>
> http://www.sgi.com/support/mips_irix.html
>
> Another Linux success story!

Perhaps I'm missing something here, but how is the EOP of IRIX/MIPS another
Linux success story? I don't get it. Is this an attempt at sarcastic
humour?

I'm not belittling Linux, by the way. I personally use Linux almost
exclusively. I just don't see how SGI's killing of IRIX is a Linux success
story. After all, IRIX did _not_ lose to Linux... Expensive proprietary
MIPS based hardware lost to cheap commodity PCs. If expensive proprietary
hardware were still viable, IRIX would still be a viable developed OS.

Just my 0.001 cents.

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On 2006-09-19, AlbaClause wrote:
> cosmos wrote:
>
>> http://www.sgi.com/support/mips_irix.html
>>
>> Another Linux success story!

> Perhaps I'm missing something here, but how is the EOP of IRIX/MIPS another
> Linux success story? I don't get it. Is this an attempt at sarcastic
> humour?
>
> I'm not belittling Linux, by the way. I personally use Linux almost
> exclusively. I just don't see how SGI's killing of IRIX is a Linux success
> story. After all, IRIX did _not_ lose to Linux... Expensive proprietary
> MIPS based hardware lost to cheap commodity PCs. If expensive proprietary
> hardware were still viable, IRIX would still be a viable developed OS.

Well, maybe soon I'll be able to pick up a copy of expensive,
proprietary Irix-6.5 for a decent price to update my Indy (currently
using Irix-6.2 still, which limits its usefulness).

Gotta be a silver lining there someplace.

--

John (john@os2.dhs.org)

On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:42:48 -0400,
AlbaClause , in
wrote:

>+ Is this an attempt at sarcastic humour?

With cosmos, it's plain, old-fashioned, bitterness.

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John Thompson wrote:


> Well, maybe soon I'll be able to pick up a copy of expensive,
> proprietary Irix-6.5 for a decent price to update my Indy (currently
> using Irix-6.2 still, which limits its usefulness).
>
> Gotta be a silver lining there someplace.
>

Well, if price is no object, you can pick up an expensive copy of
proprietary Irix-6.5 right now. ;-)

What I meant, was that Irix users that had migrated to Linux probably would
have been just as happy to have stayed with Irix, had Irix remained an
option in their hardware migration plans.

I believe, and this is only personal opinion, that if SGI had begun porting
Irix to x86 way back when, they would have been in a better position to
compete in the current market. I think that those persons and
organizations that moved from MIPS/Irix to x86/Linux would have kept Irix
as their operating system of choice had it been available. SGI could have
then followed suit in the transition from MIPS to x86 and been a very
competitive company.

Instead, SGI, in its infinite wisdom, decided that it would be best to exit
both the MIPS and Irix markets entirely and transition to Linux and Intel
processors. With that very shortsighted decision, many former customers of
SGI found themselves with no compelling reason to stick with SGI.

Organizations are generally very reluctant to migrate their entire IT base
from one platform, operating system, and application base at one time.
The learning curve inherent in training employees to use the entirely new
system is to great, and the real costs associated with lost production is
very significant. I would have guessed that the migrating customers were
looking to switch to cheaper hardware while maintaining the system (Irix)
and tools (applications) that they were already using.

Unfortunately, it was not possible for these lost customers to migrate to
cheaper Intel hardware while retaining their present system and tools.
That option was just not available. So SGI lost out big time.

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