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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. Re:not a user, eh? by un1xl0ser · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wow. Looking at their ChangeLog, it seems pretty dead to me. Thanks for the evidence.

    I can't think of a worse experience for an OS install then Irix.

    Death to IRIX! Long live the new flesh.

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  2. Re:MIPS is going away? by FoolishBluntman · · Score: 0, Troll

    Not True. x86 was a crappy intruction set before IBM or Microsoft got there.

  3. O2 = 2 slOw by ArmorFiend · · Score: 0, Troll

    > Hopefully my O2 will survive for many years to come.
    Yeah, maybe by then it will finish that integer add operation you submitted to it yesterday.