Re: IRIX and OSF/1 compilers: whose?

preston@tera.com (Preston Briggs)
Sat, 2 Sep 1995 04:38:13 GMT

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From: preston@tera.com (Preston Briggs)
Keywords: C
Organization: Tera Computer Company, Seattle, WA
References: 95-08-173 95-09-016
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 1995 04:38:13 GMT

>>I'm wondering who makes the SGI IRIX and DEC OSF/1 stock ccs: they're
>>remarkably similar, with nearly identical manpages.


>The folks frm mips. (It's the mention of ucode, and the availability
>of pixie, that gives it away.) The SGI connection is easy,
>of course, but apparently some of them later moved from mips
>to DEC.


It's not so baroque. DEC, for a time, sold machines with MIPS
processors inside. Along with the processors, they provided a lot of
MIPS software, including the compilers.


And for those who don't know, SGI has used MIPS processors (and
software) for years. More recently, SGI bought MIPS.


Preston Briggs


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