From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 9 12:50:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA01591 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 12:50:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA01582 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 12:50:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-2) with ESMTP id UAA28698; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 20:49:50 +0100 (BST) To: Russell Epstein CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Multi-processors In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 09 Jul 1996 12:54:01 CDT." <199607091754.MAA03074@shadowlands.com> Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 20:49:48 +0100 Message-ID: <28696.836941788@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [CC:'d back to questions as I dunno the answer to the second part ] Russell Epstein wrote in message ID <199607091754.MAA03074@shadowlands.com>: > I know mudos does not support multi-processors. I mainly wanted it > for use of running other apps like emacs and compiling drivers > etc... I also use the machine for a few other purposes. But I > think we are just going to buy a P-166 and be done with it. Probably wise. I'd love to see a MUD that could eat a P166! I know that LambdaMOO too a SPARC down to it's knees, but that was a memory problem (it's a memory hog) as far as I remember. That, and SPARC's (or the ones that were used to run LambdaMOO on) aren't all that fast by modern standards :-) > Ohh yea one more question. I noticed you have support for the > Cyrinx chips. I was looking at the Cyrinx 166 and it is 100 bucks > cheaper than the P-166. Have you seen any problems with the Cyrinx > chips? Dunno. Other readers of -questions care to comment? Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info