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Date:      Mon, 16 Aug 1999 16:19:36 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        vev@michvhf.com (Vince Vielhaber)
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com, Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite
Message-ID:  <199908161619.JAA14130@usr04.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908161149570.6650-100000@paprika.michvhf.com> from "Vince Vielhaber" at Aug 16, 99 11:51:08 am

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> > > 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. 
|
| 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.

Nintendo 64 uses MIPS.

It also seems a bit overzealous.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
---
Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.


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