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Before anyone tries to say it's expensive
by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 22, @06:24PM
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Realize that those numbers are list price, which nobody ends up paying (almost nobody, anyway).
You get major discounts.
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- What happened to Linuxbox.com??????????????? by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 22, @09:59PM
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diversity (Score:1)
by morbid (morbid@delphinus.demon.co.uk) on Monday February 22, @06:31PM
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It's good to see that SGI didn't dump the MIPS processor, and there remains that diversity in the market. If everyone abandoned their own processors it would be a bit of a nightmare.
Heaven help us if we ever end up faced with one (or two) choice(s) of CPU...
.. the Intel Lada 1.2 or the Intel Lada 1.3....
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Relatively inexpensive... (Score:1)
by Daniel on Monday February 22, @06:34PM
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The key word being 'relatively'. :-)
Daniel
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Too little, too late (Score:1)
by muchandr (muchandr@csua.berkeley.edu) on Monday February 22, @06:39PM
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MIPS is royally screwed now. I mean, what is it?
If you sell it as a high performance
"compiler-friendly" architecture, there is Alpha.
They will be hard-pressed to consistently outperfrom Alpha. An embedded architecture? Well,
a lot of people use it. I suppose that's because
they used Patterson/Hennesy books in their
CPU design class at school. IMHO, MIPS is horribly
miscast as an embedded architecture. Because it
is so streamline, the code density is horrible.
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- Too little, too late by elyard on Monday February 22, @06:49PM
- Too little, too late by muchandr on Monday February 22, @07:54PM
- Beast by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 22, @10:33PM
- Silicon Graphics / MIPS processor road map by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 23, @04:55AM
- Too little, too late by stripes on Monday February 22, @07:07PM
- Too little, too late by muchandr on Monday February 22, @07:41PM
- Too little, too late by stripes on Monday February 22, @11:24PM
- Too little, too late by muchandr on Tuesday February 23, @12:10AM
- NOT! by mholve on Monday February 22, @08:25PM
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How Long before Available for Origin 2000?????
by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 22, @07:01PM
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Can't wait to upgrade our servers.
R12000 + Gigabit Ethernet + Samba = Smooken!!!!!
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- How Long before Available for Origin 2000????? by wall on Tuesday February 23, @12:44AM
- How Long before Available for Origin 2000????? by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 23, @12:57AM
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Liscense Plate on R12000 (Score:1)
by mmoore on Monday February 22, @07:02PM
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I saw this a few days ago-pretty cool.
http://micro.magnet.fsu.ed u/creatures/pages/calr12K.html
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new mips... faster then intel? (Score:1)
by Cookie Monster (cyril@cyril.cyril.com) on Monday February 22, @07:21PM
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Now will it crunch RC5 keys faster then say an
intel pentium 200?
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- new mips... faster then intel? by Rendus on Monday February 22, @07:24PM
- new mips... faster then intel? by e on Monday February 22, @07:32PM
- new mips... faster then intel? by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 22, @07:54PM
- sad by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 22, @08:08PM
- VERY sad by tony@work on Monday February 22, @08:29PM
- VERY sad by jandrese on Tuesday February 23, @09:55AM
- Sadder by mholve on Monday February 22, @08:32PM
- i apologize by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 22, @08:47PM
- i apologize by mholve on Monday February 22, @08:52PM
- multi-processing with Pentium Celeron by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 22, @08:41PM
- Intel Limits by mholve on Monday February 22, @08:47PM
- Sun E10k.. by Wakko Warner on Monday February 22, @10:00PM
- Sun E10k.. by sql*kitten on Tuesday February 23, @08:30AM
- This is not about the CPU by muchandr on Monday February 22, @11:04PM
- sad by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 22, @09:01PM
- sad by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 22, @09:06PM
- NOW by muchandr on Monday February 22, @11:08PM
- NOW by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 23, @05:38AM
- NOW by muchandr on Tuesday February 23, @05:46AM
- You're kidding, right? by mholve on Monday February 22, @08:28PM
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Wishful thinking
by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 22, @07:39PM
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| In a separate announcement, the company also said it will offer customers a credit of up to $7,500 toward the purchase of a new OCTANE when they trade in any competitive UNIX system. Does my PII running Linux count as a competitive UNIX system ? :)
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- Wishful thinking by muchandr on Monday February 22, @08:01PM
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but how FAST is it?
by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 22, @08:27PM
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Got some comparisons?
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SGI! (Score:1)
by mholve (mike@nospam.eunuchs.org) on Monday February 22, @08:39PM
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| I hate to say "I told you so..." ;> Very good news indeed. As if the Octane machines aren't already totally kick-ass, this announcement comes up. Someday I might trade in my Indigo2 for an Octane, but even used - an entry level Octane is around $18K, and that's not from SGI, so the trade-up credit of "up to" $7,500 means nada to me (unless of course, I bought the Octane from SGI - way too expensive). Besides, I totally love the Indigo2, especially for 3D (it's a High Impact - realtime 3D!) and video. But some day... Hey, we can all dream, right? :) Thanks Justin! P.S. Keep an eye out for a new SGI/Linux page I'm working on. Bunches of cool stuff, especially for you SGI and Linux owners out there. (links, info, pre-compiled binaries, etc.)
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- SGI! by craw on Monday February 22, @09:22PM
- Second hand SGI. by torpor on Monday February 22, @10:02PM
- Second hand SGI. by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 22, @10:13PM
- Second hand SGI. by Lally Singh on Tuesday February 23, @05:17AM
- Excellent Source for Used SGI Stuff by mholve on Monday February 22, @10:08PM
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R12ks in Ascii Blue Mountain; real #'s. (Score:1)
by A href="mailto:fly@on.the.wall">wall (fly@on.the.wall) on Tuesday February 23, @12:54AM
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A little insect friend of mine out in the desert
tells me that the govs' blue mtn. has been using R12k cpus for some time now; for test purposes, of course >:)
350Mhz Ip31 _me_, baby!
A little bird that chased the fly to make
him lunch sez that Sgi's internal sales crapola lists the 300Mhz octane CAD #'s at roughly 30% faster than its previous R10k release (not the 250s) (with Mxe graphics)
fly on the wall...
(note: all fly info violates no known NDA's)
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You actually impressed with it?
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 23, @01:32AM
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Why are you all so impressed?! Machines based on this CPU aren't so great, much less an extremely overpriced, underpowered SGI box. Even though it has some great packages that utilize it's graphics power, you get more bang for less buck when investing in a GNU & [Linux|BSD] system..
As far as the CPU, SPECint 20 or something? haha the hype over this CPU typifies the disillusion you're under
I can't imagine actually buying anything for so much from them... haha suckers!
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- You actually impressed with it? by muchandr on Tuesday February 23, @01:39AM
- LOL by mholve on Tuesday February 23, @01:49AM
- You actually impressed with it? by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 23, @02:55AM
- PCI Bus= LOL by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 23, @08:49AM
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R12K Debuts
