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From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Date: 09 Jul 2001 02:07:39 +0200
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Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
> On Monday,  9 July 2001 at  1:55:55 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > Why not?  UltraSPARCs come pretty cheap these days, and even Linux is
> > better than *ack* *phtui* Solaris.
> I don't think any free operating system comes close to Solaris or AIX
> when it comes to SMP scalability.

Possibly not, but the cheap UltraSPARC aren't SMP ones.  I believe you
specifically mentioned PCI-equipped UltraSPARCs, and unless I missed
something those are mostly workstations and low-end servers, such as
those little 1U watchumacallits Sun is hawking for less than $1000.

DES
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