*BSD News Article 52151


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!wizard.pn.com!Germany.EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu!walk
From: walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Walk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Dual Pentium MotherBoard.
Date: 28 Sep 1995 00:42:13 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Lines: 14
Message-ID: <44cr15$55f@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <44735j$7qo@kappa.usc.edu> <DFHG2v.7Mw@ritz.mordor.com> <4491rp$gb0@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> <812139505snz@c4rv.demon.co.uk>
NNTP-Posting-Host: mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips:34439 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems:20457 comp.os.linux.hardware:17217 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:6800

Rajesh Varia <raj@c4rv.demon.co.uk> writes:
>NT (not Win95), OS/2, NetWate, several PC Unix systems. (Have I missed
                 ^^^^

OS/2 SMP is currently version 2.11, and while it makes a good server
OS, I wouldn't recommend it for a user OS (kernal spinlock for
interrupt based drivers.).

Warp SMP is supposed to be out in 6m.  Have to wait and see about perf.

-- 
					Todd Walk
					walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu