From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id LAA34048 for ; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 11:24:26 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id LAA42901 for linux-list; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 11:23:15 -0800 (PST) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from anchor.engr.sgi.com (anchor.engr.sgi.com [150.166.49.42]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id LAA41258; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 11:23:12 -0800 (PST) mail_from (olson@anchor.engr.sgi.com) Received: (from olson@localhost) by anchor.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/980728.SGI.AUTOCF) id LAA49222; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 11:23:10 -0800 (PST) From: olson@anchor.engr.sgi.com (Dave Olson) Message-Id: <199901301923.LAA49222@anchor.engr.sgi.com> Subject: Re: Press Release: Silicon Graphics Outlines Expanded Server Strategy to Grow Market Leadership into New Areas In-Reply-To: from Robbie Stone at "Jan 30, 99 06:35:55 am" To: rstone@vitelus.com (Robbie Stone) Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 11:23:10 -0800 (PST) Cc: eak@detroit.sgi.com, linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com, mdlug@collie.net Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mt. View, CA X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL35 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Robbie Stone wrote: | Yeah, I figured there wasn't one, SGI just wouldn't do that, but if you | goto www.sgi.com/software/irix6.5/ the picture at the | bottom(irix_chart.gif) sort of implies to me that the Onyx2's and Origins | will be running IRIX-IA64, now maybe I am misunderstanding this chart, but | if I am, then other people might, and you know how news articles come out, | I believe that the SGI/HP Cnet article recently at the last paragraph | referred to Linux as a language. IA64 != x86 x86 == IA32 My earlier response, to be crystal clear, was about IA32. Surprisingly to me, some of the folks on this list hadn't heard the IA32 vs IA64 names, and I had assumed that since they had been in fairly common use for 18 months that just about everybody would have known... Sorry for the confusion. The statements on the www.sgi.com web pages about IRIX and IA64 are still correct, so far as I can tell from reading the recent press release. Obviously I don't make policy, so I'm going by the same public data that you are. As far as the comments about http://www.sgi.com/vision/tech.html now being out of date, yes, they seem to be, and they'll likely be updated in the next week or so. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: olson@anchor.engr.sgi.com (Dave Olson) Message-ID: <199901301923.LAA49222@anchor.engr.sgi.com> Subject: Re: Press Release: Silicon Graphics Outlines Expanded Server Strategy to Grow Market Leadership into New Areas In-Reply-To: from Robbie Stone at "Jan 30, 99 06:35:55 am" Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 11:23:10 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com To: Robbie Stone Cc: eak@detroit.sgi.com, linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com, mdlug@collie.net Message-ID: <19990130192310.qE8K7bTKyB9ajS4fgZ_LuRvQESI4I_gfWtPwKtpwd70@z> Robbie Stone wrote: | Yeah, I figured there wasn't one, SGI just wouldn't do that, but if you | goto www.sgi.com/software/irix6.5/ the picture at the | bottom(irix_chart.gif) sort of implies to me that the Onyx2's and Origins | will be running IRIX-IA64, now maybe I am misunderstanding this chart, but | if I am, then other people might, and you know how news articles come out, | I believe that the SGI/HP Cnet article recently at the last paragraph | referred to Linux as a language. IA64 != x86 x86 == IA32 My earlier response, to be crystal clear, was about IA32. Surprisingly to me, some of the folks on this list hadn't heard the IA32 vs IA64 names, and I had assumed that since they had been in fairly common use for 18 months that just about everybody would have known... Sorry for the confusion. The statements on the www.sgi.com web pages about IRIX and IA64 are still correct, so far as I can tell from reading the recent press release. Obviously I don't make policy, so I'm going by the same public data that you are. As far as the comments about http://www.sgi.com/vision/tech.html now being out of date, yes, they seem to be, and they'll likely be updated in the next week or so.