From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Dec 14 11:36:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 887841530D for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 11:36:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA23803; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 12:35:48 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAwHayrU; Tue Dec 14 12:35:34 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA21198; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 12:35:35 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199912141935.MAA21198@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: dual 400 -> dual 600 worth it? To: ragnar@sysabend.org (Jamie Bowden) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 19:35:35 +0000 (GMT) Cc: brett@lariat.org, dscheidt@enteract.com, tlambert@primenet.com, noslenj@swbell.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Jamie Bowden" at Dec 14, 99 05:05:37 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Can I point out that the PC isn't the only platform on the planet? When I > was at NASA 16 processor (or more) Origin2000's and Sun Enterprise servers > with anywhere from 200GB to 1TB+ drive arrays on them were quite common. > > Eventually PC's won't be single processor toys. Hell, you can build dual > CPU boxes now for less than a 286 cost 10 years ago. Any spec you come up > with better be scalable, and not ignore multi cpu configurations. Eventually, PCs will go away, and you will host your sessions on mainframes once again; only your destop will just always be there for you to attach to. A lot of things had to happen for us to go from mainframe to mini to pc to lan to clinet/server and then back to mainframe; most of them had to do with economic model (getting away for CPU second charges, getting "click-through" as a revenue model, getting low cost high speed networks in place, etc.). See: http://www.qubit.net/ Perhaps you can even convince them to let you use FreeBSD instead of Linux (they were WIN/CE). I think you will also start to see true "capabilities" based OSs ("capabilities" is a security model), where you can kick out the plug, plug it back in, reattach your "webpad", and be back exactly where you were before you kicked out the plug. Now if only IKE/ISAKMP weren't based on clipper chip technology... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message