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  <title>Package Rationale - MIPS</title>

  <para>This is the explanation for the inclusion of MIPS-specific packages.</para>

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    <listitem>
      <para>ARCLoad</para>
      <para>An SGI Multi-bootloader. Able to bootload many different SGI Systems.</para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>Colo</para>
      <para>A replacement bootloader for the Cobalt MIPS based Raq/Qube? servers.</para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>DVHTool</para>
      <para>Dvhtool is the tool responsible for writing MIPS kernel(s) into
      the SGI volume header.</para>
    </listitem>

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