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To: Jim Davison who wrote (3623)	11/20/1997 8:45:00 AM
From: vincent bilotta	Respond to of 14451

Jim, i would give Jim Clark a little more credit as a visionary by adding that he left SGI in a disagreement where he strongly advocated a real commitment to diversifying on the low end, a move that has now been forced on SGI. he then sat around for six months until he met Mark Andrenson who sparked his interest with Mosaic. vincent

To: Jim Davison who wrote (3623)	11/20/1997 9:02:00 AM
From: Jerry Whlan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14451

The company has deployed a vast 1,328-processor machine that is the largest production supercomputer in the world - but is still is binary compatable with their smaller machines. SGI's unique investment in cc-NUMA architecture. It may be binary compatible with the older T3E-900, but it is not binary compatible with any of the Origin products. It is based on the DEC Alpha chip, not any of the MIPS family. Also, I don't think it is a cc-NUMA box, it may be NUMA, but I don't think it is cache-coherent which makes all the difference. So far, the largest Origin system that SGI has announced is only 128 processors and it will be in beta until next year. (SGI will still be making royalties on those Nintendo 64 game cartridges, too.) I'm sure Nintendo will be making royalties on those cartridges, at least until someone successfully challenges their requirement that all game manufacturers pay them for the privilege of writing software for their game console. But I digress. Unless those cartridges have MIPS chips in them (and they typically only have ROM and a little NVRAM), I can't see SGI making a cent off the cartridge sales, only the game console sales. I think you should also mention how much cash in the bank SGI has (somewhere around 300-400 million isn't it?).