From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 14 18:58:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA24766 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 18:58:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from parkplace.cet.co.jp (parkplace.cet.co.jp [202.32.64.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA24759 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 18:58:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michaelh@cet.co.jp) Received: from localhost (michaelh@localhost) by parkplace.cet.co.jp (8.8.8/CET-v2.2) with SMTP id BAA21244; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 01:49:50 GMT Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 10:49:50 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock To: Shawn Leas cc: Brandon Lockhart , David Greenman , Jeremy Domingue , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disgruntled Linux User... questions about FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Isn't VLIW a part of what Merced is about? On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Shawn Leas wrote: > > Maybe you need to look into VLIW, IMHO the future of architecture. Very > Long Instruction Word... You know how fixed lengh RISC instructions > are easily pipelined? Well, VLIW is pipelined at compile time... Of > course, non of this to my knowledge is in production anywhere, so a moot > point.. Thought I'd mention it though, as it's fun stuff. > > -Shawn > <=========== America Held Hostage ===========> > Day 2001 for the poor and the middle class. > Day 2020 for the rich and the dead. > 921 days remaining in the Raw Deal. > <============================================> > > On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Brandon Lockhart wrote: > > > What are you talking about, I was talking about for a HIGHLY used server, > > as in, more then cdrom.com, and I was talking about a REAL server, not a > > PC supped up. I am talking about a rack mount server, a REAL server. > > Which in case you where out of the loop, most REAL servers use RISC. > > > > > > On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, David Greenman wrote: > > > > :>First of all, I do not recommend Gateway 2k for server's. Get a COMPAQ or > > :>HP or SUN. RISC is the way to go. > > : > > : It's a good thing that we (the FreeBSD developers) don't believe this else > > :several of the largest servers on the Internet wouldn't be running FreeBSD. > > :...but of course we think otherwise. FreeBSD makes an excellent server > > :platform and most PCs, despite their warts, work just fine in this application. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message