From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 16 19:39:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA15168 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 19:39:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from oitunix.oit.umass.edu (nscs22p6.remote.umass.edu [128.119.179.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA15163 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 19:39:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gp@oitunix.oit.umass.edu) Received: (from gp@localhost) by oitunix.oit.umass.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id WAA00959 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 22:39:17 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gp) Message-ID: <19981016223917.A28871@oit.umass.edu> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 22:39:17 -0400 From: Greg Pavelcak To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.7 vs. 3.0 References: <199810162216.SAA14810@laker.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199810162216.SAA14810@laker.net>; from Steve Friedrich on Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 06:15:24PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 06:15:24PM -0400, Steve Friedrich wrote: > On Fri, 16 Oct 1998 16:43:35 -0400, Roman Katsnelson wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I was just curious if there'd been an informational page set up, > >outlining the differences between the 2.2.x branch and the 3. branch? > > > >The only difference I know of is a.out vs ELF... Is there anything else? > > I'd like to see such a page too and have spent some time searching for > the info already. > > I can say what some of the other differences are: > CAM Common Access Mode You can put CAM on 2.2 though > More newer devices supported, some older devices dropped (PAS16 SCSI > part) > I thought someone said it supports pthreads, but I don't know > Support for SMP Symetrical Multi-Processor support (maybe only up to a > quad processor, but still way cool) > > Anyone else?? > Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/3.0-RELEASE/RELNOTES.TXT Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message