Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 22:51:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Castor Fu <castor@geocast.net> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: O/S Support for large [512Mb] PC systems Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980621224827.923A-100000@geo.geocast.net> In-Reply-To: <199806212211.QAA16575@pluto.plutotech.com>
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On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > >In message <199806212036.NAA01265@antipodes.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith writes: > >>Add www.hotmail.com, owned by Microsoft but Powered by FreeBSD. > > > >I was almost absolutely sure hotmail was running on Solaris, at least, > >that's what the news story on Microsoft's failure to convert it to NT said. > > Hotmail funded the effort to port CAM to 2.2-stable for deployment on > ~300 machines (they needed aic7895 support for some new machines they > wanted to deploy). Some of their operations may well be based on > Solaris, but they certainly haven't stopped using FreeBSD. Sounds to me like Microsoft decided Hotmail was going to run on "not Solaris", but that NT was too large a value of "not Solaris" so they settled for FreeBSD. Incidentally, I saw something saying that MS was buying a stake Pluto Technologies. Is this the same Pluto Technologies that you work for? -castor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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