From: lm@neteng.engr.sgi.com (Larry McVoy)
To: Steve Alexander <sca@refugee.engr.sgi.com>
Cc: lm@neteng.engr.sgi.com,
"Christopher W. Carlson" <carlson@heaven.newport.sgi.com>,
linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Getting X on Linux/SGI
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 09:45:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199706201645.JAA07034@neteng.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
: lm@neteng (Larry McVoy) writes:
: >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".
:
: MIPS Chips != SGI systems. My question still stands.
Have you forgotten Nintendo 64 sales?
MIPS Chips == $$$ for SGI. $$$ for SGI is what it is all about, that's what
feeds the light bills. If making a bunch of hackers happy turns into $$$
for SGI in the long term, then we do it. At this point, I believe it is
obvious that that is the case.
next reply other threads:[~1997-06-20 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-06-20 16:45 Larry McVoy [this message]
1997-06-20 17:06 ` Getting X on Linux/SGI Todd Shrider
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1997-06-24 0:55 Steve Alexander
1997-06-22 17:50 Larry McVoy
1997-06-22 17:50 ` Larry McVoy
1997-06-23 19:43 ` Christopher W. Carlson
1997-06-22 17:36 Larry McVoy
1997-06-20 21:43 Steve Alexander
1997-06-20 21:43 ` Steve Alexander
1997-06-20 16:40 Larry McVoy
1997-06-20 16:51 ` Mike Shaver
1997-06-20 16:51 ` Mike Shaver
1997-06-20 16:59 ` richard offer
1997-06-20 8:39 Steve Alexander
1997-06-20 15:22 ` Martin Knoblauch
1997-06-20 7:59 Steve Alexander
1997-06-20 7:59 ` Steve Alexander
1997-06-20 8:16 ` David S. Miller
1997-06-20 7:34 Larry McVoy
1997-06-20 9:55 ` William Fisher
1997-06-20 9:17 ` David S. Miller
1997-06-20 10:12 ` Ralf Baechle
1997-06-20 10:12 ` Ralf Baechle
1997-06-20 20:16 ` Nigel Gamble
1997-06-20 9:55 ` William Fisher
1997-06-20 13:42 ` Todd Shrider
1997-06-20 14:07 ` Ralf Baechle
1997-06-20 14:07 ` Ralf Baechle
1997-06-20 7:21 Steve Alexander
[not found] ` <sca@refugee.engr.sgi.com>
1997-06-20 17:28 ` Christopher W. Carlson
1997-06-23 7:07 ` Martin Knoblauch
1997-06-23 19:31 ` Christopher W. Carlson
1997-06-18 23:16 Larry McVoy
1997-06-18 23:42 ` Nigel Gamble
[not found] ` <nigel@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com>
1997-06-19 15:46 ` Christopher W. Carlson
1997-06-19 6:40 ` Ralf Baechle
1997-06-19 6:40 ` Ralf Baechle
[not found] <199706181641.JAA05598@darwin.esd.sgi.com>
1997-06-18 19:41 ` John Chen
1997-06-18 19:41 ` John Chen
1997-06-18 19:56 ` David S. Miller
1997-06-18 20:15 ` Alex deVries
1997-06-19 20:01 ` William J. Earl
1997-06-18 0:00 Good news: no more begging for HW John Wiederhirn
1997-06-18 0:34 ` Getting X on Linux/SGI Ariel Faigon
1997-06-18 0:34 ` Ariel Faigon
1997-06-18 16:28 ` Christopher W. Carlson
1997-06-18 19:30 ` Nigel Gamble
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