Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 20:48:15 -0700 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Drew Sanford <drew@planetwe.com> Cc: Heredity Choice <stork@QNET.COM>, leon Lei <leon_of_tasp@hotmail.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, leon@infinet.net Subject: Re: FreeBSD for Alpha Dual CPU Message-ID: <20001023204815.A1179@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <39EC905D.9AECB9D6@planetwe.com>; from drew@planetwe.com on Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 12:46:05PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSI.4.05L.10010171027480.5226-100000@cello.qnet.com> <39EC905D.9AECB9D6@planetwe.com>
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On Tuesday, 17 October 2000 at 12:46:05 -0500, Drew Sanford wrote: > Heredity Choice wrote: >> On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, leon Lei wrote: >> >>> Hi fellows, >>> >>> Could anybody enlighten me the availability of a version of FreeBSD, >>> which supports Dual Alpha Processors like 264DP? >>> >>> If there is no such thing yet, what would be the new release time? >>> >>> Your help is heartily appreciated. >> >> Neither FreeBSD nor NetBSD supports dual Alphas. For this you need Tru64 >> UNIX, which, with its microkernel, can support any size cluster and will >> soon be running the biggest supercomputer in the world. >> >> What are you doing that one Alpha processor is not enough? Not many people >> need that kind of speed, and the developers probably do not feel any >> urgent need to develop SMP for FreeBSD Alpha. > > This is not entirely true. One of the Alpha developers is working on > SMP for the Alpha right now. As to when it will be available, I > cannot say, nor, probably, can anyone else for sure. All I can tell > you is hang in there. The code is available in -CURRENT now. If you're the kind of person who can handle -CURRENT, you're welcome to it. Expect to help debug the inevitable bugs, and to track the FreeBSD-current mailing lists: we don't handle those issues on this mailing list. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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