From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 25 08:08:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA09887 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 08:08:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA09880 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 08:08:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id IAA22717 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 08:06:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 08:06:56 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199808251506.IAA22717@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Threads across processors In-Reply-To: <8887.904055105@gjp.erols.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >From: "Gary Palmer" >Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 10:25:05 -0400 >I'll be brutally honest at this point. >There are probably two reasons to go with UltraSPARCs and Solaris. >1) Solaris is heavily threaded, and some of the designs in the kernel are > actually pretty neat. >2) The PC hardware platform *BLOWS*.... 3) Platform consolidation is an administrative win. david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message