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Re: Should we upgrade IRIX?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Mon Dec 11 17:01:41 2000
Message-Id: <200012112201.RAA20213@dit.mit.edu>
To: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>, owls@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU
cc: alexp@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Dec 2000 23:07:17 EST."
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Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 17:01:36 -0500
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
>It is nearing the time when we need to decide whether to upgrade the
>version of IRIX running on our SGI machines next year for Athena 8.5.
>We are currently running IRIX 6.5.7
>From a discussion at today's release team meeting, our initial feeling
>is that we should not bother to upgrade IRIX next year. If you feel
>otherwise, have other perspectives that we ought to consider, or know
>of other relevant issues, please speak up soon
wdc reminds me that I should put in my two bit's worth- so here it is.
As far as I have heard to date, no SGI Third Party application requires
any version of IRIX later than 6.5.7.
Alex
