Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Jun 1999 18:10:58 +0200 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | Subject | Re: SGI's XFS DONATED AS OPEN SOURCE!!!!!!!!! |
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On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 06:29:46PM -0700, Nate Tuck wrote:
> AFAIK a lot of the G part of GRIO was made possible by some hardware which > doesn't exist on non-SGI systems anyways. So, this debate may be largely a > red herring.
No, in many of their systems the hardware is just standard stuff like the WD33C93 (Indy, Challenge S) or Qlogic 1040 (IP27 aka Origin). No magic at all and actually if you think about it the complexity in doing GRIO is in the OS not somewhere else.
Ralf
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