Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 10:35:38 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NT an 4 processors Message-ID: <199609281535.KAA01191@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199609280818.KAA25068@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph Kukulies" at Sep 28, 96 10:18:02 am
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> > Sorry for the subject - I know you are all working hard on FreeMSD SMP > Someone here is praising NT and having it run on a 4 processor board. > > Is there some striking argument against doing multiprocessing under NT? > > My arguments are always: > > 1) NT doesn't have remote administrability (not telnet service) > > 2) NT doesn't have to plethora of tools like shells, networking tools. > NFS, etc. > > 3) NT doesn't have the good support that a free OS has - for whatever reasons. > > 4) NT costs license fees to Bill Gates. > > Any more cons? > SMP doesn't help the problems with the NT VM system handling heavy loads. John
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