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Subject: Re: is Vax addressing sane today
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2024 17:18:22 -0000 (UTC)
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Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> schrieb:
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
>>On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 10:12 +0100 (BST), John Dallman wrote:
>>
>>> [Windows NT on MIPS] was a commercial failure, because MIPS
>>> didn't keep up with the performance growth of x86.
>>
>>It was NT that was the commercial failure, not MIPS. MIPS found a niche in 
>>the embedded world, and went on to outsell x86 by a factor of 3:1 or so.
>
> Note that MIPS CPUs were used in SGI supercomputers and high-end
> graphics workstations.

I worked on one of the SGI machines for a time, it was the
successor of the Cray which had been decommisioned before I started
work at the company.

It wasn't economical to keep around, so it got decommisioned
when the next big reorganization (and big crisis) hit, and
the staff then retired.

For a time, the only machine for CFD applications at that company
was an HP Itanium box on my desk...