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To: firefly who wrote (4899)	5/19/1998 8:44:00 PM
From: ramin shahidi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14451

Because there is a distinctive advantage to both Run IRIS-Unix and also be compatible with the rest of the world, at an affordable price. --Ramin > We are still going to sell Unix products like Octane, Onyx-2 and > Origin.Why would we want to sell pc's to run Unix when we already > have great products which do that already.

To: firefly who wrote (4899)	5/20/1998 1:45:00 PM
From: Marcelo Magnasco	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14451

Firefly says: We are still going to sell Unix products like Octane, Onyx-2 and Origin. Why would we want to sell pc's to run Unix when we already have great products which do that already. Because many of us have depended on having both high end and lower end solutions which are compatible with each other. I have a two-processor Octane on my desk, where I'm typing this. I can't afford to put an Octane on every desk though: I got postdocs, grad students and even high-school interns. We have the full spectrum here: a 20-proc O2000, Octane, Impact I2, PI2, O2s, Indys, and even R3000 Indigos. We depend on them being interoperable. They form a single domain where one can move from one to the other and use whatever resources are needed for the job. If I have to start putting 1.5K$ PentiumII Linux boxen on intern's desks, it devalues our O2000. Because you can't prototype stuff on the small box and just run it on the big one as needed. Hell, I can get 1K$ P-II boxen now. I can network 20 of them together with 100BT, run RPI, and get something approaching decent performance for the kinds of jobs we run here, for 20K$. It's truly scary that someone from SGI does not understand this. Marcelo