Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:00:05 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "Chris H." <fbsd@1command.com> Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Concluding the SMPng project Message-ID: <20060612220005.GA74601@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20060612141235.3f7woozpc4888ksc@webmail.1command.com> References: <20060606195938.GA6581@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060612141235.3f7woozpc4888ksc@webmail.1command.com>
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--d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 02:12:35PM -0700, Chris H. wrote: > >* For example, a number of us are looking very closely at the nascent > >FreeBSD port to the Sun Ultrasparc T1, which provides 32 virtual CPUs > >(4 threads on 8 CPU cores) on a single chip. Optimizing for the new > >generation of SMP hardware is going to be a major effort over the > >coming year. >=20 > Ahh, so the contributions made by the PIII & PIV CPU's were merely to > obtain access to the Sparc systems, and the PIII & PIV will be relegated > to the ubiquitous I386 scrap heap, as the future and ultimate goal of > FreeBSD is to be Sun Microsystems. Pitty, FreeBSD has always provided > such wide scalability. So easy to implement on so many architectures. > I wish I had known it's agenda years ago. As I would not have spent > so many years and so many dollars building *BSD based infrastructures. > Perhaps I've misunderstood this announcement. But if not; > good riddance. LOL, you've managed to completely misconstrue my email. Well done! Kris --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEjePkWry0BWjoQKURAjiYAJ94vCKYu36+LvyVZrUzSZU9GPAouACg8/cJ biUXNWRAZgDCS2QE7taI+Pg= =yL9g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND--
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