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Date:      Mon, 9 Jul 2001 09:27:43 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        Pedro F Giffuni <pfg1+@pitt.edu>, Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: OS portability (was: Things you learn in school)
Message-ID:  <20010709092743.K80862@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <xzpd77bou0k.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 01:55:55AM %2B0200
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On Monday,  9 July 2001 at  1:55:55 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Pedro F Giffuni <pfg1+@pitt.edu> writes:
>> The problem is: how many people actually buy a new Ultra SPARC or an IBM
>> PPC to run Linux on it? I mean serious users trying to use it for
>> business purposes.
>
> 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.

Greg
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