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- In article <lthumper-1702952119060001@ivy-b6.ip.realtime.net>, lthumper@bga.com (Jeff Kramer) says:
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- >In article <3hth88$4bq@beta.inc.net>, syndesis@beta.inc.net (John Foust) wrote:
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- >> And why couldn't SGI produce machines based on non-MIPS chips?
- >
- >They could.
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- >> SGI's real selling point has been fast processors, fast bus,
- >> fast graphics accelleration... and there are plenty of
- >> non-MIPS alternatives to these today.
- >
- >But not many that SGI owns. If you didn't know already, MIPS is a wholly
- >owned subsidiary of Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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- Yes, I know it, but that's my point: everyone thinks that SGI
- will always base their processors on their subsidiaries' chips,
- but I'm "whacking people on the side of the head" to remind you that
- they are a company that makes computers, and it may well become
- profitable for them to make computers based on other chips, if
- MIPS' chips become too expensive.
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- >> SGI won't have anything to show as a result of their proposed
- >> merger.
- >
- >SGI may be showing off more than you imagine. ;> Little birds perch on
- >many a-shoulder.
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- OK, tweet, tweet!
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