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To: Edward Smyth who wrote (5572)	1/14/1999 12:42:00 PM
From: John M. Zulauf	Respond to of 14451

If only more people were like Ed.... Edward Smyth wrote: > Besides, I'm sure I speak for some others when > I say that I would love to see low-end > ($3000-$8000) IRIX systems. When I look at how > good a 1994 Indy is, I wouldn't mind IRIX taking > over the computing world. I'm typing on a R10K Max Impact now. I own an O2 (and a 300MHz AMD clone MB in a 6yr-old Gateway tower). I really like IRIX. I find it a productive environment. It doesn't crash on me regularly as does my PC when it's running W95 -- funny my PC doesn't crash when I running Linux... must be a flaw in Linux -- not all the crashed are enabled. ;-) However, as much as we may disagree, the market today wants and prefers NT to IRIX (or *IX). The three rules of platform succes are "titles, titles, titles" and right now NT is the king of the hill in this regard. SGI is doing "the-right-thing" (tm) by having a NT product and "the-right-thing" (tm) by making it the hottest and coolest, drooling gear-lust gotta have it, all steak and all sizzle box on the market. Especially with a sub-4K starting price. BTW some have griped over the 350MHz entry config -- I don't get it. Given the graphics chipset offloads the CPU -- I wouldn't be surprised to see this "slower" CPU beat PII 450's with lesser graphics for interactive applications. In any case, I'd rather give the user the choice of paying for only as much Intel silicon as they need/afford instead of forcing a more expensive solution. Just my humble irix-loving and sgi long opinion. John