From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 16 1: 2:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7503015575 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 01:02:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id TAA43598; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 19:32:24 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 19:32:24 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Steve Kapsinow Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Specs Message-ID: <19991216193224.A43484@freebie.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 15 December 1999 at 10:26:51 -0500, Steve Kapsinow wrote: > Hello. > > I'm putting together an OS comparison chart for internet.com's Webopedia. > I'm wondering if you could fill in a few blanks for me. > > Thanks. > > FreeBSD (yes or no) : > > multithreading? Yes, at user level. > multitasking? Preemptive or Cooperative? Preemptive, with dynamic priority adjustemnt. > protected memory? Yes. > SCSI support? Yes. > FireWire support? In development. > USB support? Yes. > multiple CPUs? Yes, on the Intel platform. > How many? I don't know of any limitation beyond the hardware. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message