M J Dowden writes:
> 
>    Do you think SGI/Mips/IRIX still has a chance? Could this revive them? 
> 

SGI?  Nope.  MIPS?  Very bright future, but as an embedded systems 
processor, not a general purpose CPU.  IRIX?  Only as the bits and pieces 
(like XFS) that they have let out as open source. 

Ken Seefried, CISSP