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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!feeder.chicago.cic.net!data.ramona.vix.com!nnrp1.crl.com!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: New 3.0-SNAP [was Re: infinite loop in sysinstall] Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 21:38:16 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3373FBB8.3F54BC7E@FreeBSD.org> References: <5kije3$7ke$2@news9.gte.net> <336D27CA.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> <slrn5mupgs.1mq.pavanas@nomina.ccia.com> <33714FFB.446B9B3D@FreeBSD.org> <E9vwLD.EFz@nonexistent.com> <337314B2.15FB7483@FreeBSD.org> <E9xKAH.IBJ@nonexistent.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) To: Louis Epstein <le@put.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40667 Louis Epstein wrote: > ALPHA support? > Will FreeBSD-x86 and FreeBSD-DEC ALPHA be separately released then? No, I think we'll be doing it pretty much "NetBSD style" - e.g. syncronized releases across all (two :-) supported platforms. > As far as SMP goes,I see you have plans for a four processor version, > and know Intel has been involved with massively parallel supercomputing; > will FreeBSD one day be able to handle mainframes and supers and drive > the "unfree" OS people out of business? I doubt that we'll be driving anyone out of business, but I certainly hope to see FreeBSD running on truly aggressive SMP implementations, yes. > So this will be a while...209 and 505 have been CDed for them I guess? No, we've yet to do a 3.0 SNAPshot on CD. The SNAP subscribers have been waiting awhile for the next one and I'm afraid they're going to have to wait just a little longer. :) -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.