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To: Klaus B. Biggers who wrote (3463)	11/6/1997 3:44:00 PM
From: kumar L chalasani	Respond to of 14451

why - thank you Klaus! so kind of you.

To: Klaus B. Biggers who wrote (3463)	11/6/1997 4:58:00 PM
From: Justin Banks	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14451

Klaus - Hmmm.. don't you mean SGI's new OS? No. 6.5 is much closer than an NT product, AFAICT. I hope you're not long on a company you believe is migrating to an OS that "crashes or hangs every other time I try to use it" SGI isn't 'migrating' to NT, we're going to build an additional product that uses NT. NT is not a replacement for Irix. Remember guys, when you slam NT today, you're slamming SGI. Not today. Not tomorrow. Never. Is slamming NT the same as slamming HP, Compaq, Dell, or IBM? Slamming the NT box SGI builds may be slamming SGI, but slamming NT certainly isn't. SGI isn't building an NT box because the performance is good, it has good technology, or it is really stable. We're building a NT box because people are buying it, despite it's shortcomings. Good luck to you all. Sounds like you may need it. You and Paul should go bowling. -justinb

To: Klaus B. Biggers who wrote (3463)	11/6/1997 5:13:00 PM
From: Mike Mackovitch	Respond to of 14451

SGI is NOT migrating to Microsoft's OS... it is ADDING it as a low-end product only because they want to make money off of the people who have fallen victim to MS marketing and think that that's what they must have. There's no way in hell that Microsoft's OS could handle anything much more than our low-end desktop systems... at least not in the near future. And SGI is certainly not "migrating" to be a low-end computer maker. stop being delusional... oh, and good luck to you too...

To: Klaus B. Biggers who wrote (3463)	11/9/1997 9:24:00 PM
From: Mark Dalton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

Actually only the PC's will have MS running. A friend of mine at Seagate has NT and it crashed running Java (that is MS for you). Hopefully we can make changes to NT to stablize it and handle loads. Actually NT is only for low-end, none threaded computing. Definetly not for workstation,server,highend or super computing. Mark