Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 16:36:35 -0500 (EST) From: Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@alcnet.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: support for larger memory Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903301626460.12072-100000@kronos.alcnet.com>
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Time and time again we have all seen people get bit in the rear because BSDI compatibility was broken. Broken for a good cause, mind you, because FreeBSD seemed to lose a little of that "power to serve" when it died horribly on newer servers :) So, the good news is, we can now support large memory configurations (and I recall that 4G might not be that far off). The bad news is, the fairly decent number of programs which are available for BSDI but not FreeBSD won't run on FreeBSD now. Anyway, we all know that. But what I would like to know is: how does BSDI support large memory configurations? I'm confused on how it is that the $1000+ commercial BSD derivative can't handle running on newer servers (although it is pleasing to think a $0 BSD derivative can :) ) Surely, this cannot be the case, though. So, I'm curious, why is it that we needed to break BSDI compatibility in order to support large memory configurations. It would seem that the two shouldn't be mutually exclusive. Thanks, Kelly ~kbyanc@posi.net~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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