[geeks] Has Sun Learned from SGI's Mistakes?

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Thu Feb 7 20:59:13 CST 2002


On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 09:54:58PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > Since when are Cobalts Intel machines?  I thought that they ran MIPS.

>   The first Cobalts...the Qube and the RaQ...were MIPS-based.  I
> beta-tested those; they were great machines.  Then Cobalt got
> suits...and they started making (rather boring) little PeeCees.

That really sucks. I wonder what the effect on the original MIPS machine
used prices was...

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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