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Subject: Case for FreeBSD presentation docs?
From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=)
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Our research group (NOW, short for Network of Workstations, doing
research on a parallel computing environment to replace MPPs) are now
discussing for a possible extension of horizon to PCs.  Of course, I
think this is a good chance to have them realize that they can get
"commercial-grade" (no flames please, note the quotes) BSD operating
systems on fast, inexpensive computers.

The next group meeting is on Thursday, so I need to make some quick
preperation.  I'm the only FreeBSD proponent in the group, there are
several Linux users, and the rest are "workstation > PC" people.

So, if you have any documentation or list of caveats and emptors
(pardon my Latin), I'd like to hear from you.  Anything will be fine,
of course I won't merely reuse them, I just need examples and list of
things to consider.

Also, if people are aware of high-end network components supported by
FreeBSD, it will be great.  I've found something about the DEC 21140
based chip in the mail archive, is the driver fully functional now?
How much does it cost?  (Those kinds of questions.)  Same goes to the
FDDI driver.

Note that this will be a HUGE project, which might go up to the order
of thousands.  The main discussion topic is like "hundreds of
workstations or thousands of PCs?".

Thanks!

Satoshi