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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. Shame by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    They were such great machines.

    Its amazing how quickly a great company can be trashed by bad decision making, and switching to Intel microprocessors...

    My only hope is that they will open source Irix, and even open source the high-end MIPS implementations. The world could benefit from those things.

    -bms20

  2. Ah, yes.... by The+Ape+With+No+Name · · Score: -1, Troll

    The worst of RISC mixed with the worst of UNIX.

    --
    Comparing it to Windows will be a moot point, since El Dorado is going to have a 40% larger code base than XP.
  3. m*od 3own by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Channe7 #GNAA on

  4. Re:Pick an OS with staying power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Don't forget to pay SCO your $699 licensing fee you cock-smoking teabagger.

  5. Re:Pick an OS with staying power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    But I think the trend is clear.

    Yes I see a trend... however, it's not about operating systems, it's about you posting dumb shit.

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

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

  8. 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.