Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 00:41:57 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com> To: "Thomas (Matt) Barton" <matt@fear.net> Cc: Dave Leimbach <dleimbac@earthlink.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Misinformation Message-ID: <3AE752B5.9D8A8043@nisser.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0104251724430.5761-100000@fear.net>
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"Thomas (Matt) Barton" wrote: > > ... > OS X does support SMP, but I understand that it still has some ways to go. > I may be wrong. > > Look for Apple to release more SMP systems in the future. This will be > their way of catching up in the mhz race (if it's still happening) with > Wintel. MS in persona of Mr. Dave Cuttler already has egg on its face. Ever since back in '93 he proclaimed that this new thing on the horizon known as NT, this veritable UNIX killer like IBM's AS/400 was a VAX killer was based on a microkernel OS. He made this utterance in front of a crowd of UNIX geeks. Mistake. BIG Mistake <g>. Mach, of course, *is* a microkernel. Hence OS/X is based on a microkernel. Njahdie, njahdie, njahdie <g>. Alas, both microkernels seem not to be in vogue anymore as is the case with MHz-en. Sure, speed's always nice. But currently it seems the processors are fast enough for even Java! <g,d&r>. Besides, if you really need speed... dump that Cray and install a Real Gameputer! Processors with 128 bit wordsize, standard reality engines, whatever. Roelof PS I, too, thought MP (not SMP per se) was the thing. But were is the Transputer now? Or Occam for that matter. 't was such a beautiful architectue, too. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Het Slakke Huis van de TGV op http://SlakkeHuis.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. Nisser home -- http://www.Nisser.com/ Beveiligingsverwijzingen -- http://Nisser.com/links.htm Overzicht bekende LijnMonitoren - http://www.SlakkeHuis.com/Werkgroepen/LM/monitoren.php3 ---------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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