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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!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-east.sprintlink.net!news-dc-26.sprintlink.net!news-pen-4.sprintlink.net!Sprint!news.sprintlink.net!news-pen-16.sprintlink.net!news.crd.ge.com!rebecca!rpi!usenet From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: New 3.0-SNAP [was Re: infinite loop in sysinstall] Date: 12 May 1997 02:51:40 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Lines: 23 Message-ID: <5l60js$r1g@usenet.rpi.edu> 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> <3373FBB8.3F54BC7E@FreeBSD.org> <E9yEv5.IG6@nonexistent.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mlor.its.rpi.edu X-Newsreader: Alexandra.app (Version 0.82) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40744 le@put.com (Louis Epstein) wrote: > Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@FreeBSD.org) wrote: > : 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. > > Well,by year end it should be possible to show off a 3.0 release > on a four-Pentium II-300MHz system,and demonstrate how it benchmarks > the pants off a Pentium-75 running WinNT and a Pentium-90 running > Linux, and start some cool flamewars... I don't follow the world of intel all that much, but my understanding was that the Pentium-II chip is not geared up for four-processor systems. The Pentium Pro can be used in four-processor systems, but the Pentium-II stops at dual-processors. (I could very well be wrong on that, I just read it on some web page articles about the Pentium-II release). --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA