Did anyone else see this already? Read the paragraph at the bottom.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/25 ... page2.html
Simon
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/25 ... page2.html
Simon
chancehooper wrote: I wonder how much it would take to port IRIX to that architecture?
pentium wrote: It uses those blasted DDR2 mini-DIMMs. So that's (possibly) why my shop shipped almost 1000 sticks to china recently.
kshuff wrote:chancehooper wrote: I wonder how much it would take to port IRIX to that architecture?
Nobody left at SGI that knows anything about IRIX anymore
chancehooper wrote: ...as long as they got agreement from SGI/rackable. Which is feasible as they have no commercial interest in it, even to the point of ending MIPS/Irix support.
fieldframe wrote: Did anyone else see this already? Read the paragraph at the bottom.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/25 ... page2.html
Simon
smj wrote: When somebody has shipped viable machines running Red Flag Linux (or whatever) outside of China, maybe people will start paying attention.
kshuff wrote:chancehooper wrote: I wonder how much it would take to port IRIX to that architecture?
Nobody left at SGI that knows anything about IRIX anymore
SAQ wrote: To bad Hamei's gone - it would be nice to see the inside scoop. I don't think he was ever able to track down one of the Godson things, was he?
SAQ wrote: SGI was the major former MIPS maker. The association would be natural.
PymbleSoftware wrote: Not only that, but they act like they hate MIPS and IRIX.... Or at least the local (Australian) office seems find it an offensive topic to bring up.
R.
SAQ wrote: To bad Hamei's gone - it would be nice to see the inside scoop.
chancehooper wrote: ... especially as the state-of-the-art PCs still struggle to maintain the system-wide bandwidth of something like an Onyx2 or even an O2 - they rely heavily on multiple cores and high clock speeds to overcome the bottlenecks through brute force, but a quick (1-2ghz) multicore MIPS CPU fitted into a proper architecture would take less power, do as much actual work on a system-to-system comparison and would work with things like Flint, Flame and Smoke ...
Hamei did come back briefly under a different name, made a few posts, and was run off again..
vishnu wrote:Hamei did come back briefly under a different name, made a few posts, and was run off again..
So you're saying bluebird on a branch was Hamei? I had no idea...
bri3d wrote: Stallman carried a Lemote netbook for a while as the entire hardware/software stack from the ground-up was open-spec and open-source.
bri3d wrote: Sadly they were also garbage.