Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!oxtrap!sendai!rich From: rich@sendai.sendai.ann-arbor.mi.us (K. Richard Magill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips Subject: Re: Clarification Message-ID: Date: 25 Jul 89 20:06:44 GMT References: <2293@itivax.iti.org> <23924@winchester.mips.COM> Sender: rich@sendai.UUCP Reply-To: rich@sendai.ann-arbor.mi.us Distribution: comp Organization: Digital Works, Ltd. - Ann Arbor, MI Lines: 23 In-reply-to: mash@mips.COM's message of 24 Jul 89 01:13:32 GMT In article <23924@winchester.mips.COM> mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) writes: I think this was originally aimed at MIPS systems, and I do think it would make sense to post questions about a DEC 5810 to comp.sys.dec, and about SGI boxes to comp.sys.sgi. For instance, it certainly makes no sense to post questions like "Does Ultrix release xxx on the 5810 do such and such?" here. Then I'd like to suggest that: a) the name of this group be changed to comp.sys.mipsco. We use mipsco around here to distinguish the company which is Mips.Com from the too many other overloaded definitions for the word mips. (the magazine, the chip architecture, the company, the units (there are several of them) of cpu horsepower, etc.) b) someone yell at DEC and tell them that their machine isn't a "mips". Specifically, the DEC distributed C compiler defines "mips", "MIPSEL", and "ultrix", which is your best clue to the fact that this is a decstation, but machine(1) reports that the decstation is a "mips". -- rich.