Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think!ames!sgi!vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips Subject: Re: broken ldexp() Message-ID: <46605@sgi.sgi.com> Date: 19 Dec 89 02:17:11 GMT References: <1989Dec14.135452.16496@me.toronto.edu> Sender: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 22 In article , mac@rhea.ardent.com (Mike McNamara) writes: > ... > I.E., when SGI used the MIPS chip, they also licensed the MIPS > OS and MIPS compilers. Hence they got a quite nice compiler and OS. > ... > -- > Michael McNamara (St)ardent, Inc. mac@ardent.com Ahem. This is not what I understand to be true. The impression I have from outside of the SGI languages group(s), is that we did and might still buy compiler stuff from MIPS. However, my recollection of the work done during the SVR3 port to MIPS chips was that both companies contributed lots of engineering time and money. I am only a drudge in the OS and network trenches, but it seemed at the time as inaccurate to say MIPS got the OS from SGI as vis versa. Vernon Schryver Silicon Graphics vjs@sgi.com