Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 08:26:10 +0200 From: Mattias Pantzare <pantzer@ludd.luth.se> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OS portability (was: Things you learn in school) Message-ID: <200107090626.IAA15092@mother.ludd.luth.se> In-Reply-To: Message from Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> of "09 Jul 2001 02:07:39 %2B0200." <xzp4rsnoth0.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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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. :-) 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
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