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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