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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!pacbell.com!gw2.att.com!nntphub.cb.att.com!not-for-mail From: dyson@inuxs.inh.att.com (John S. Dyson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison) Date: 16 Jan 1996 16:24:40 GMT Organization: AT&T Lines: 19 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4dgjg8$78i@nntpb.cb.att.com> References: <4cmopu$d35@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <bryDL5wtq.4Fo@netcom.com> <4dc00a$j2f@park.uvsc.edu> <bryDL7E84.LG3@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: inuxs.inh.att.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1994 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2145 comp.unix.solaris:57431 comp.unix.aix:68852 In article <bryDL7E84.LG3@netcom.com>, Bryan Althaus <bry@netcom.com> wrote: > >True. What I really was trying to say is that SunOS 4.1.x had pthreads >slapped into it where as Solaris (among other OS's) was designed from the >start to support threads with support throughout the kernel. Also >designed in from the being with Solaris was support for SMP. I always >here people say "Other than SMP .." as if it's trivial to have an OS >support SMP. If it was so easy Linux and *BSD would have it. > Actually the main reason that FreeBSD doesn't have SMP right now (there are people running SMP right now on FreeBSD, but it isn't ready for product yet), is that many of the developers just do not have SMP machines. If they were more common (in the X86 arena), we would most likely have it. Since SMP on the X86 is becoming more and more real, with the Triton-II chipset for P5 and the P6/Orion, you'll see SMP on FreeBSD soon. John Dyson dyson@freebsd.org