[geeks] Daily Dose of Unix

[Kurt Huhn]

"Chris Byrne" <chris at chrisbyrne.com> wrote:

> Well I just did an ebay search and found 4 machines total with MXE out
> of about 200 SGI boxes.
> 
> That's a pretty good indication of one (or both) of two things. 
> 
> 1. They didn't sell too many of them 
> 2. The ones they did sell are being put to good use
> 

They actually did sell a shitpile of them.  In SGI terms anyway.  The
fact that you don't see many is only because people that have them
continue to hold on to them and use them for real work.  You also don't
see too many MXI either, and SGI also sold a shitpile of those.

> Im guessing its both considering how expensive the bastards were
> retail. IRC they were like 60k for a maxed out one when they first
> came out. 
> 

Well, they didn't sell as many systems as, say, Dell - but they're not
even close to haveing te same customer base.  You're right though,
they're relatively rare in most parts of the world.

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