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From: bry@netcom.com (Bryan Althaus)
Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison)
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 04:52:25 GMT
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Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote:
: bry@netcom.com (Bryan Althaus) wrote:
: ] Last I heard FreeBSD doesn't handle SMP which would do Sun
: ] alot of good selling multi-cpu machines. Not to mention Cray.
: This sentence, other than the incorrect statement about FreeBSD
: and SMP, is gramatically unparsable.
Since your not a machine, I'm sure *you* could parse it. Notice below
is the sentence I was talking about.
]]Just think; if sun had stuck with a good OS (SunOS 3) when they had it, they
]]could be shipping something as nice as FreeBSD now. It's a real shame.
^^^^^^^
<<Sentence now rewritten>>
Last I heard FreeBSD doesn't handle SMP without hacking the code yourself
or having Terry Lambert to build the kernel for you. Without support for SMP
in their OS it would be of little value to Sun in selling multi-cpu machines
which benefit greatly from use of multiple CPU's. Not to mention Cray which
ships Sparc based on 32+ Sparc CPU's.
If that was the case we'd be all waiting another 2 years until PIXAR
finished the rendering of "Toy Story" using single CPU Sun machines ;)
: If you need the patches and are willing to work on the code, I
: will forward them to you.
: You will need a CVS tree (available via SUP from ftp.FreeBSD.ORG)
: to be able to check out the 28 Oct 1994 source tree against which
: the patches apply (that's right: FreeBSD has had SMP since 1994).
: I can send you more recent patches against -current if you are
: willing to hack on locore.s GDT initialization.
Just tell me where I can buy a CD-ROM with *BSD on it that supports
SMP on Intel, Sparc, and PowerPC out of the box. Actually I'll make
it easier, tell me where I can buy a CD-ROM with *BSD on it that supports
SMP on any platform. This should be no problem if its been in there
since 1994.
I also take the Linux SMP CD-ROM ;)