From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jul 8 23:26:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mother.ludd.luth.se (mother.ludd.luth.se [130.240.16.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 296D637B405 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 23:26:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pantzer@ludd.luth.se) Received: from brother.ludd.luth.se (brother.ludd.luth.se [130.240.16.78]) by mother.ludd.luth.se (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA15092; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 08:26:46 +0200 (MEST) Message-Id: <200107090626.IAA15092@mother.ludd.luth.se> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OS portability (was: Things you learn in school) In-Reply-To: Message from Dag-Erling Smorgrav of "09 Jul 2001 02:07:39 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 08:26:10 +0200 From: Mattias Pantzare Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Greg Lehey 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. :-) All current Suns have PCI, the only Suns that have sbus is the old midrange servers, and you can get PCI on those. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message