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To: John M. Zulauf who wrote (3490)	11/7/1997 11:50:00 PM
From: Tim Mak	Respond to of 14451

>the ultra-high-end should kick serious butt John, can you tell us who are the current, and likely future customers of SGI's bandwidth engines. And what is your estimate of the size of the addressable market in the next two to three years (assuming SGI executes)? Thanks.

To: John M. Zulauf who wrote (3490)	11/8/1997 12:45:00 AM
From: Ronny Kohavi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14451

> Thing the UNIX vendor could have done to protect their turf >* true 100% source code compatibility >* common commodity motherboards with a common memory and CPU slot architecture. >* standard I/O controllers, buses, and drivers The MIPS ABI Group went further than that in some ways. The ABI defines a common binary interface for several MIPS RISC UNIX OSs, including Control Data, NEC, Pyramid, Siemens, Sony, Tandem, and SGI. Prorams that are MIPS ABI compliant can run on several platforms without recompilation. See the following link for example: mipsabi.org and sgi.com -- Ronny