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  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • September 12, 2006
    An article by Stephen Shankland:

    ``Silicon Graphics will phase out its Irix operating system and the MIPS chip-based computers the Unix variant runs on at the end of the year, 18 years after the once-vaunted computing company introduced the technology....

    ``Meanwhile, Linux, an open-source alternative that closely resembles Unix, has risen to prominence in part because it runs on mainstream x86 processors such as Intel's Xeon and Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron. The three major versions of Unix that still are under active development are HP's HP-UX, Sun Microsystems' Solaris and IBM's AIX; of those, only Solaris runs on x86 chips.''

    Full story:
    http://news.com.com/2100-1016-6113705.html

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