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To: Alexis Cousein who wrote (3485)	11/7/1997 11:00:00 AM
From: Edward Smyth	Respond to of 14451

Message from Alexis Cousein on Nov 7 1997 7:17AM EST >>Or will the entry-level Irix box be a $17000 Octane? >If SGI told the analysts the NT products would be an 'addition >to the current product line', what do you think that means? >Is the O2 (part of the current product line) priced at $17000? >>If that happens how will SGI maintain sufficient Irix volumes to >>attract the software developers? >Precisely why, in my opinion, it won't happen. I do hope you're right. I am very religious about the OS on my computers :-) Hence I am a little worried that, in the long term, NT will take a more central role at SGI. >As for the rest of your post, what you're advocating is simply >that SGI make the two lines converge in the future, using as many >common components as possible, and that's about it, no? I doubt >that idea hasn't occurred to SGI people, though I'm not in the >secret of the gods. Yes, I know it is not an original idea. It has been done before - someone (can't remember the name) had an NT machine with choice of MIPS or Alpha CPU. I suppose the difficult bit would be matching the memory bus to 2 completely different processor architectures. I'm sure the appropriate people in SGI have much better ideas. Ed