From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 25 06:39:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA28416 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 06:39:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from octopus.originative.co.uk (originat.demon.co.uk [158.152.220.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA28305; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 06:38:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paul@originative.co.uk) Received: by OCTOPUS with Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) id ; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 14:20:41 +0100 Message-ID: From: Paul Richards To: "'Philippe Regnauld'" , Paul Richards Cc: "'Gary Palmer'" , Chuck Robey , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Threads across processors Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 14:20:31 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: Philippe Regnauld [mailto:regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk] > Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 1998 11:02 AM > To: Paul Richards > Cc: 'Gary Palmer'; Chuck Robey; freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Threads across processors > > > Paul Richards writes: > > Hotmail are apparently dropping FreeBSD in favour of > Solaris because of > > thread support as well :-( > > Hotmail is Micro$loth now. If they'd had half a brain, they'd > do like Yahoo and sponsor development of the ugly work... > Maybe someone should suggest it to them. It must be costing a fair bit to switch to Solaris. They must have some independence from Microsoft to be able to go for Solaris, although it is due to the fact that NT fell on it's face when faced with the task :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message