Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 5th Sep 2006 19:43 UTC, submitted by MatzeLoCal

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RE: Nothing special about SGI...?
by kloty on Tue 5th Sep 2006 21:59
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>I think that now there is nothing special about SGI. No more powerful >and *different* workstations. May be the age of the powerful Unix >workstation is finished, may be.
That's not true regarding the current SGI offerings of their Itanium workstation. They are powerfull and very different from the rest. Please read the article http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=15582
Anton
RE: Nothing special about SGI...?
by glarepate on Wed 6th Sep 2006 09:56
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I think that now there is nothing special about SGI. No more powerful and *different* workstations. May be the age of the powerful Unix workstation is finished, may be.
SGI should release IRIX as open source, at least the code that can be released without problems. Can be a good starting point to maybe "FreeIRIX" or "OpenIRIX" :the first multimedia-aimed free UNIX clone.
The decadence of SGI seems to be unstoppable. They will die, I think.
Edited 2006-09-05 21:33