[rescue] SMP on intel wasteful?

Chris Hedemark chris at yonderway.com
Mon Jun 24 15:30:59 CDT 2002


On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 15:45, Kurt Huhn wrote:

> Crusty old OS?  Which one would that be?  DOS?  $20k for a DOS computer
> with an x86 processor?  I don't think so...

More like Solaris or IRIX.  OS's that come out of the box with all ports
open ready to go.

The best upgrade I ever did on a uniprocessor sun4u was install
OpenBSD.  I'm still not sold on Linux on MP sparc boxen (or even
uniprocessor sparc boxen).



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