Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 19:32:07 -0500 (CDT) From: Shawn Leas <sleas@ixion.honeywell.com> To: Brandon Lockhart <brandon@engulf.net> Cc: David Greenman <dg@root.com>, Jeremy Domingue <jer@hughes.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disgruntled Linux User... questions about FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.96.980714192845.29951C-100000@ixion.honeywell.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980714195524.17353A-100000@engulf.net>
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Maybe you need to look into VLIW, IMHO the future of architecture. Very Long Instruction Word... You know how fixed lengh RISC instructions are easily pipelined? Well, VLIW is pipelined at compile time... Of course, non of this to my knowledge is in production anywhere, so a moot point.. Thought I'd mention it though, as it's fun stuff. -Shawn <=========== America Held Hostage ===========> Day 2001 for the poor and the middle class. Day 2020 for the rich and the dead. 921 days remaining in the Raw Deal. <============================================> On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Brandon Lockhart wrote: > What are you talking about, I was talking about for a HIGHLY used server, > as in, more then cdrom.com, and I was talking about a REAL server, not a > PC supped up. I am talking about a rack mount server, a REAL server. > Which in case you where out of the loop, most REAL servers use RISC. > > > On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, David Greenman wrote: > > :>First of all, I do not recommend Gateway 2k for server's. Get a COMPAQ or > :>HP or SUN. RISC is the way to go. > : > : It's a good thing that we (the FreeBSD developers) don't believe this else > :several of the largest servers on the Internet wouldn't be running FreeBSD. > :...but of course we think otherwise. FreeBSD makes an excellent server > :platform and most PCs, despite their warts, work just fine in this application. > : > :-DG > : > :David Greenman > :Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project > : > > > ,-----------------------------------------------------------------. > | //// "Anything I say represents only my opinion." | > | (o o) / | > | ,---ooO--(_)--Ooo---------------------------------------------, | > | | BRANDON LOCKHART | | > | `-------------------------------------------------------------' | > | brandon.lockhart@usinternetworking.com brandon@engulf.net | > | Work: (410) 897-4551 Pager: (888) xxx-xxxx | > `-----------------------------------------------------------------' > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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