Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 18:30:02 -0400 From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, Alfred Perlstein <perlsta@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> Cc: James Mansion <james@wgold.demon.co.uk>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970417182959.00b2e9c0@etinc.com>
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At 06:26 PM 4/17/97 -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>
>> > database server. And you'd need a growth path beyond uniprocessor
>> > Intel, which
>> > free UNIXen (including Linux, as far as I'm concerned) don't have now.
>>
>> freebsd doesn't have multiple intel processor support?
>> is this true?
>
> nope, SMP support is alive and well in 3.0+. I believe its
>integrated as part of 3.0+...isn't it? But we've had SMP capabilities
>through patches since at least 2.2
Great. So the most powerful boxes can only be used by hackers and
not for any serious commercial purpose requiring stablilty.......didnt
we just have a (rather heated) discussion about this?
db
>
>Marc G. Fournier
>Systems Administrator @ hub.org
>primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary:
scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
>
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