I have tried to remove myself from the PC world. I have an SGI Octane I
use as my machine and a Umax s900 Macintosh Clone running NetBSD as a
server. Its hard to find parts for them. I am very scared about the day
a part goes out on one of them. Replacements are too hard to find. I am
trying to buy a second Octane I can sit in a closet, so I can have a
back up.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: port-sgimips-owner@NetBSD.org
[mailto:port-sgimips-owner@NetBSD.org] On Behalf Of james ozone
(engineering)
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 1:07 PM
To: fabian@wenks.ch; port-sgimips@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: Problems booting 2.0.2 ISO on R5000 o2?

> > that's true. but IMHO it's very sad watching one company after the
other
> > (Commodore, sgi, Sun won't take long either) or technoligies (MIPS,
> > PA-RISC, Alpha) dying -- what survives is el-cheapo x86 crap.
>=20
> I'm not sure about MIPS, but they are still here, got separated=20
> from SGI a few years ago. They are more in the embeded field I=20
> guess. Is not the Sony PS2 running with MIPS?

what i've wanted for years: a non-x86 chipset available in a commodity
motherboard formfactor. the closest thing i've seen was the mips magnum
4000. sure, you can get non-x86 architectures at commodity pricing (eg,
sony ps2) but it's not "usefully generic" (not trivially a drop-in
replacement for my primary desktop machine).

i've resigned myself to "el-cheapo x86 crap" on the desktop, mostly
because
nothing else has a comparable bang:buck ratio... sigh.