Silicon Graphics files for Chap 11 and is sold to Rackable for $25 Million

Alexander Schreiber als at thangorodrim.de
Thu Apr 2 08:26:56 CDT 2009


On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 09:59:46AM +0200, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 05:45:55 +0200
> Alexander Schreiber <als at thangorodrim.de> wrote:
> 
> >  - SINIX Unix servers: Their own hardware architecture, MIPS CPUs and
> >    a (IMHO) truly horrible Unix, dead
> The SINIX machines started with NS32[05]32 CPUs. Later they used
> i80486. Note: This was not a PeeCee. It was basicly the same machine
> architecture as the NS32[05]32 machines but with the i80486 shoehorned
> in. The MIPS machines came after that and at least some of them where
> ARC compliant.

Ah, I only saw the MIPS machines, as sold to "special customers" a few
years ago.

Regards,
       Alex.
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 looks like work."                                      -- Thomas A. Edison


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