Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 20:22:21 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>, Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990816201515.19879O-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <199908161619.JAA14130@usr04.primenet.com>
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On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > > > > > > Has anyone mentioned to them that they will be unable to incorporate > > > > > changes made to the GPL'ed version of XFS back into the IRIX version > > > > > of XFS, without IRIX becoming GPL'ed? > > > > > > > > Given that they say they're dropping IRIX and going with Linux, I don't > > > > think it'll be a problem. > > > > > > Can you please site a reference for this, other than wishful > > > thinking by the Linux camp? > > > > Here's one: > > http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,1015908,00.html > > > > But just about every trade rag covered it. > > > Begging your pardon, but: > > > | --- With the help of Veritas Software Corp., SGI will work to add > | key features of its Irix operating system to the Linux platform. > | Currently, Irix runs on the MIPS platform. Once SGI switches > | entirely to Intel Corp.'s IA/64 platform, that will be the end of > | Irix. > | Why would switch to IA/64 mean end of IRIX? SGI has long planned to switch to IA/64, but with IRIX. If SGI wants to continue building Origins, esp the high CPU count ones, IRIX is to stay for a long time. > | SGI is also forming an alliance with NEC Corp. to increase its > | market share in Japan. > > These paragraphs are contradictory. It implies an end to MIPS. > An end to high-end MIPS may come ... if Merced, etc. peform well enough. As this is a topic beaten to death on comp.arch, everybody interested should look there. > Nintendo 64 uses MIPS. > Which doesn't matter all that much. MIPS cpus for nintendo could be made by say MISP, not SGI (and SGI sold/is trying to sell MIPS). > It also seems a bit overzealous. > You bet. It seems it is to hard foir the journalists to actually read the press releases. > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > Sander There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - all these are just illusions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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