Eh, not always. SGI used MIPS to make big servers (and supercomputer clusters) back in the day - although I only ever got to play with an Origin 200[0] and the

Eh, not always. SGI used MIPS to make big servers (and supercomputer clusters) back in the day - although I only ever got to play with an Origin 200[0] and the little Indy that was its console. More cost-effective than Sun hardware at the time (at least in the education market). [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Origin_200 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Origin_200