From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 29 09:05:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA29515 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 29 May 1998 09:05:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles328.castles.com [208.214.167.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA29456 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 09:05:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA02770; Fri, 29 May 1998 08:01:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805291501.IAA02770@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Richard Cownie cc: Mike Smith , jak@cetlink.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on 8-way SMP PPro In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 29 May 1998 11:51:47 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 08:01:11 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > That thought had occurred to me ... the surest way to make it happen > would be for lots of people to express serious interest in buying > NX801/NX803 machines to run FreeBSD. Indeed, although the sort of people in that market are probably going to want some sort of indication that it *will* run properly before they are likely to commit to it. The chicken-and-egg problem is always a tough one, but your work is definitely the first step. Now, one more question (*). Do you folks have a loaner system that we could take to Usenix? Heck, can we get that sort of power on the floor there? > Richard Cownie > > DISCLAIMER: speaking for myself as usual, not for Axil Computer Inc Do Axil have an opinion at all about non-NT operating systems and their hardware? There's quite a lot of "wow" power in saying to someone "this guy at Axil has FreeBSD running on one of *these* (points to picture)", and it really does lend some serious credibility to the project. However, it's not the sort of thing that you want to do if Axil corporate have a dim view of other operating systems, so I'd prefer to be a little careful about it. (*) "Ha Ha only serious". -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message