Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 10:20:56 -0500 (EST) From: Marco Radzinschi <marco@radzinschi.com> To: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Which BSD Message-ID: <20020319101732.V68655-100000@mail.radzinschi.com> In-Reply-To: <20020319143244.GA19972@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
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On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Paul Mather wrote: > Marco Radzinschi <marco@radzinschi.com> wrote: > > => Since you require SMP support, FreeBSD in your case. Neither OpenBSD nor > => NetBSD support SMP yet. > > This is absolutely not true. I run NetBSD/alpha on my olde DEC > 3000/300 at home, and I know that SMP is supported on the alpha port > by NetBSD. (In fact, there was a recent question on port-alpha about > how many CPUs it supported [IIRC, it's 64, in theory].) > > Given NetBSD's philosophy, I would be very surprised if SMP were > limited only to the alpha port. > > Although I prefer NetBSD, I chose to run FreeBSD on my desktop at work > out of pragmatism, simply because it has a larger ports collection, > particularly of things I want to or might need to use. (I also wanted > to get some FreeBSD experience.) > > Cheers, > > Paul. > > e-mail: paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu > > "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production > deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid." > --- Frank Vincent Zappa > Paul: I was under the impression that SMP support had not yet stabilized, and was only available in -current. As far as I know, NetBSD-i386 does not yet have stable SMP support. Has SMP support been imported into the alpha release, or are you running NetBSD-current? Thanks for the info. Marco Radzinschi E-Mail: marco@radzinschi.com AOL IM: CrackedBoy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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