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SGI Announces MIPS and IRIX End of Production

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the end-of-an-era dept.

ramakant writes "Considering the recent news regarding their dismal financial situation, it should come as no surprise that SGI announced end of production for MIPS based hardware and the IRIX operating system. From the article: "SGI launched the MIPS/IRIX family of products in 1988. Since then, this technology has powered servers, workstations, and visualization systems used extensively in Manufacturing, Media, Science, Government/Defense, and Energy. After nearly two decades of leading the world in innovation and versatility, the MIPS IRIX products will end their general availability on December 29, 2006." IRIX has always been my favored OS, and I'll be sad to see it gone. Hopefully my O2 will survive for many years to come."

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  1. MIPS is going away? by EvanED · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now what narrowly-deployed architecture for which everyone runs a CPU simulator will be taught in computer organization and assembly language classes?

    1. Re:MIPS is going away? by AKAImBatman · · Score: 3, Funny
      Now what narrowly-deployed architecture for which everyone runs a CPU simulator will be taught in computer organization and assembly language classes?

      Duh. They'll emulate the 6507 in the Atari 2600. That way they can run it on real, modern hardware! :P
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    2. Re:MIPS is going away? by Bluesman · · Score: 2, Funny

      It'll all be Motorola 68000.

      Anything but Intel, it's just way too easy to find recent and cheap hardware and software that's i386.

      Plus the textbooks won't have classic lines like,

      "Today's machines now come standard with up to 4 megabytes of Random Access Memory, and this continues to increase every year!"

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    3. Re:MIPS is going away? by AndyboyH · · Score: 2, Funny

      Who the HECK puts cpus in a toaster?!?

      How do you think the toast gets cooked overwise? It ain't going to brown itself...

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  2. Oh Gosh by sarathmenon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now I have to dump my IRIX, right after I dumped SCO UX. This just isn't fair!

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  3. SPARC? by Grendel+Drago · · Score: 2, Funny

    I learned on SPARC; I thought everybody else did too...

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    1. Re:SPARC? by jd · · Score: 2, Funny

      You can't confirm that! You're not Netcraft! :)

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  4. It's a UNIX system. I know this! by earbenT · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lex's skills are useless now. :(

  5. Re:MIPS died years ago. Long live, ARM! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    With ARM, NEC has a winner!

    Combined with HED and LEG, it would be an even more powerful combination!