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From: Pedro F Giffuni <pfg1+@pitt.edu>
Subject: Re: OS portability (was: Things you learn in school)
To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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You can buy a SUN IPC for $20 or less in the Computer goodwill here.
These machines are very slow to reasonably run Solaris, so the best
option is NetBSD or OpenBSD.

For bigger machines though, threads and SMP are an important
consideration. Furthermore UVM still hasn't shown the real life
performance FreeBSD's VM gives under heavy loads. AFAIK, this has not
been benchmarked in years though.

    Pedro.

Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> 
> From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
> Subject: Re: OS portability (was: Things you learn in school)
> Date: Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 12:52:00AM -0600
> 
> > At 02:33 AM 7/9/2001, Pedro F Giffuni wrote:
> >
> > >I recall someone is Slashdot complained abut the lack of distributions
> > >for the SPARC.
> >
> > They should talk to Theo. He was NetBSD's port maintainer for SPARC
> > before OpenBSD split off, and probably still offers pretty good
> > SPARC support for OpenBSD.
> 
> Interesting thing to know that Theo was the NetBSD's port maintainer
> for SPARC.
> 
> The "hardware platforms" link at www.openbsd.org shows that OpenBSD
> has support for:
> 
>         sparc: Sun's Sun4, Sun4c, and Sun4m models.
>         sun3: Sun's 68020 based Sun3 models.
> 
> Very very nice :)
> 
> It is true then that whatever your platform, and application, there
> *is* a BSD for you.
> 
> -giorgos

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