From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 22 01:17:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA01436 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 01:17:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wgold.demon.co.uk (wgold.demon.co.uk [158.152.96.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA01424 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 01:17:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wgold.demon.co.uk by wgold.demon.co.uk (NTMail 3.02.10) with ESMTP id oa001366 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 17:26:49 +0100 Message-ID: <335B9548.3050@westongold.com> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 17:26:48 +0100 From: James Mansion Organization: Westongold Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert CC: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) References: <199704201853.LAA08286@phaeton.artisoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Info: Westongold Ltd: +44 1992 620025 www.westongold.com Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert wrote: > > I think there is a bit of semantic confusion here. > OK, I agree. > You are not drawing a distinction between "XXX has SMP support" and > "XXX supports SMP". Sure, but for a user (even a developer) who isn't hacking the kernel files for fun, in this terminology 'XXX has SMP support' is about as much use as a chocolate teapot, while 'XXX supports SMP' is useful. Maybe we could say 'XXX has some SMP related code that you can enable if you are brave'. Or 'XXX has experimental SMP support'. --------------------------------------- Westongold Ltd C++/Java Multithread development and libraries +44 1920 444284 info@westongold.com