From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 5 21:34:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA23928 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 21:34:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA23923 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 21:34:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@austin.polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA22007; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 21:33:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Message-Id: <199808060433.VAA22007@austin.polstra.com> To: garnett@bogus.cs.colorado.edu Subject: Re: Heads up on LFS In-Reply-To: <199808051941.NAA10755@bogus.cs.colorado.edu> References: <199808051941.NAA10755@bogus.cs.colorado.edu> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 21:33:55 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > According to the Spin SMP page, the FreeBSD code used is from 2.1.7 > > They plan to update to 3.0 to get SMP running though. > > It's not clear how alive SPIN really is anymore; it would be surprising if > they actually did this. In the OS research community the word is that it > is "Spun Down" or anything along similiar lines; work could be tailing off > on it, although you'd have to ask Brian Bershad to be sure. That's the impression I've gotten too. At one point, they wanted me to do some SPIN-related work for them, "definitely." We scheduled it to begin about 3 months in the future, because of prior commitments I had. When the 3 months were up, I contacted them and said I was ready to start. Their reply was, oh ... hmmm ... well ... we're not doing too much in that area any more, and we don't need it after all. (That kind of thing is incredibly common in the consulting biz, by the way.) -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message