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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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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

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