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Date:      Fri, 1 Nov 2002 21:15:13 -0600
From:      Martin McGreal <freebsd@mcgreal.org>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>, alpha@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: AS4100 -- worth the effort?
Message-ID:  <200211012115.13390.freebsd@mcgreal.org>
In-Reply-To: <200211012109.gA1L9i3a078240@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
References:  <200211012109.gA1L9i3a078240@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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The stable FreeBSD distribution does not yet utilize more than one proces=
sor=20
on SMP alpha systems. However, I've been told you may install the 5.0=20
developer preview release, which has SMP support, but may be unreliable.

On Friday 01 November 2002 03:09 pm, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> I may have a free quad-processor AS4100 (with an unknown amount of
> memory) land in my office soon.  How much effort is it going to be
> worth putting in to get this machine running FreeBSD?
>
> There are actually eight such machines in the former cluster, at least
> one of which was non-functional.  If you think you might want one and
> can arrange to have it picked up in Cambridge, Mass., it may be
> possible for you to get one or two.  Please send me private mail if
> you are interested and I'll talk with the people who are currently
> involved in decommissioning the cluster.
>
> -GAWollman
>
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