From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 17 10:46:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wormhole.bluestar.net (wormhole.bluestar.net [208.53.1.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AF8237B4F9 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 10:46:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from planetwe.com (admin.planetwe.com [64.182.69.146]) by wormhole.bluestar.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e9HHk4N23425; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 12:46:04 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <39EC905D.9AECB9D6@planetwe.com> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 12:46:05 -0500 From: Drew Sanford X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Heredity Choice Cc: leon Lei , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, leon@infinet.net Subject: Re: FreeBSD for Alpha Dual CPU References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is not entirely true. One of the Alpha developers is working on SMP for the Alpha right now. As to when it will be available, I cannot say, nor, probably, can anyone else for sure. All I can tell you is hang in there. Heredity Choice wrote: > > Neither FreeBSD nor NetBSD supports dual Alphas. For this you need Tru64 > UNIX, which, with its microkernel, can support any size cluster and will > soon be running the biggest supercomputer in the world. > > What are you doing that one Alpha processor is not enough? Not many people > need that kind of speed, and the developers probably do not feel any > urgent need to develop SMP for FreeBSD Alpha. > > Paul Smith > > On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, leon Lei wrote: > > > Hi fellows, > > > > Could anybody enlighten me the availability of a version of FreeBSD, > > which supports Dual Alpha Processors like 264DP? > > > > If there is no such thing yet, what would be the new release time? > > > > Your help is heartily appreciated. > > > > Leon > > -- Drew Sanford Systems Administrator Planetwe.com Email: drew@planetwe.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message