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 (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id AAA19023; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 00:34:58 -0700 Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) id AAA10761 for linux-list; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 00:34:32 -0700 Received: from neteng.engr.sgi.com (neteng.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.10]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id AAA10756 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 00:34:29 -0700 Received: from localhost (lm@localhost) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via SMTP id AAA18987; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 00:34:26 -0700 Message-Id: <199706200734.AAA18987@neteng.engr.sgi.com> To: Steve Alexander From: lm@neteng.engr.sgi.com (Larry McVoy) cc: "Christopher W. Carlson" , linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: Re: Getting X on Linux/SGI Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 00:34:26 -0700 Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk : "Christopher W. Carlson" writes: : >My point was that SGI is into making hardware. That's how it started : >and that is still its main focus. Yes, it is true that our software : >is very important because it takes advantage of the proprietary stuff : >in the hardware, but the main income for SGI is hardware. : : How many people buy the hardware and program the bare metal? We own MIPS. MIPS sold or licensed 19.2 million chips last year. About 19 million of those were of the type "program the bare metal". Much of the Linux/MIPS interest is for embedded systems. We should have done this years ago, there is no reason why not to do it other than NIH.