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To: P.T.Burnem who wrote (3102)	10/21/1997 3:46:00 AM
From: Alexis Cousein	Read Replies (3) of 14451

>An OS that can handle SMP is not exactly a cutting-edge technology. True, unless your name is Microsoft ;). SGI has had such an OS for 7-8 years now, but the Origin 200/2000 OS is quite another beast; it looks like an SMP, but isn't hampered by a fixed system bus. And the quality of the kernel and scheduler has improved a lot over these many years; that's what pays off. Not all customers just want a good S(2)MP scheduler as a tick box item on a list; some also want that feature to perform well ;). > Likewise, not many customers put much weight on an OS being 64 bit. That's a big laugh. Try telling Oracle customers that buy large servers they don't want the 64-bit version... > a) N64 is being sold at a loss The N64 pricing model (they choose to make money on cartridges and not on the base unit) is Nintendo's choice. But I can assure you it has no impact on the license fees that SGI earns.

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