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Re: [News] Silicon Graphics Drops Proprietary Platforms, Concentrates on Itanium+Linux

Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Wednesday 06 September 2006 14:25 \__
> 
>> begin  oe_protect.scr
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> In message <1678349.mEil3b1aCF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> 
>>>> (Gross translation)
>>>> 
>>>> SGI adjusts MIPS Irix computers
>>> 
>>> Linux--yay.
>>> 
>>> Itanium--sigh...
>> 
>> Well, they've got to go in /some/ direction...
> 
> I think there was some newly-erected research lab in India which optimised
> Itaniums for GNU/Linux, as well as work on improving GCC to work hand in
> glove with Itaniums. I suspect it was only the latter, but I haven't
> checked.

It used to be that if you bought an SGI machine, you had no need for things
like GCC.

Sad day indeed.




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