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SGI ceasing MIPS-Irix computer sales
Silicon Graphics said Dec. 29 will be the day its Irix operating system and MIPS-based servers are discontinued. Presumably there will be some ongoing paid support options. The technologies have been around for 18 years, but SGI now primarily builds its hardware around Linux running atop Intel Itanium processors. It's debatable whether the decision will help or hurt SGI's bottom line, but either way it's one more Unix version going away. Unix versions from Hewlett-Packard, IBM, SCO and Sun Microsystems are the only major ones left now.
For more on SGI:
- read this Cnet News.com article
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