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by pvg 3429 days ago
That was actually their product rather than a 'hedge' for a while.
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astrodust 3429 days ago
It started out as a hedge against their own hardware being an impediment to sales, then ended up being their entire business. I guess it was a good hedge to have!
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protomyth 3429 days ago
Considering they had NeXTSTEP release versions running on x86, PA-RISC, SPARC, and its original home 68000, they did pretty well. I do wonder why the MIPS chips were ignored.
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rvense 3429 days ago
Maybe SGI didn't want to play ball...
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protomyth 3429 days ago
Probably, but it just seems rather odd since MIPS had an open system spec and Windows NT had been ported to it.
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