[Info-vax] Unix on A DEC Vax?

[MG]

On 22-jan-2013 8:46, Michael Kraemer wrote:
> Bill Gunshannon schrieb:
>
>> Never saw a MIPS that could hold a candle to an Alpha.
>
> Of course it could.
> Mips-based SGI's made it all through the nineties,

That's right and I still enjoy running my quad-processor
MIPS R16000 Tezro.


> and Mips is still alive, whereas Alpha is long dead.

While the latter is unfortunately true, 'alive' is perhaps
a bit of a 'big' word...  Unless you consider what MIPS,
Inc. (and its new Indian ownership, I believe) is doing
very /fruitful/.

The last thing I heard, about MIPS and its involved (and
mostly in the "embedded" industry), had to do with some
network switches with multi-core MIPS64 processors.  That
was easily half a decade ago.

During that time, there were also some half-baked attempts
to bring out MIPS-powered netbooks and those have apparently
died out also... or, I don't see or hear much about it,
amidst all the ARM-powered ones).

The only reason why MIPS hasn't completely died out, is
because China --- for whatever reason --- still appears to
show interest for it and hasn't given up on it.

  - MG