Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 08:50:07 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: Brian Adkins <brian@lojic.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: an honor you may not want... (fwd) Message-ID: <36F8A73F.D637EFAC@uk.radan.com> References: <19990324123452.T425@lemis.com> <4.1.19990324021459.00a7a800@mailbox.iwaynet.net>
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Brian Adkins wrote: > > At 01:36 AM 3/24/99 -0500, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: > > So where's the SGI port of FreeBSD? > > > >from article: > > > > Server of choice for e-porn purveyors: Silicon Graphics Origin 2000 > > OS of choice for e-porn purveyors: FreeBSD > > > > Adrian > > I dunno, but take a look at the machine: http://www.sgi.com/origin/2000/ > pretty cool! > > "CrayLinkTM Interconnect allow you to add > modules and move from one to 128 processors in > a single-image system, providing up to 256GB of > shared physical memory and 80GB per second of > sustained I/O bandwidth." > Talking of SGI, what do you reckon the chances of getting FreeBSD to run on their new NT workstation? AFAIK it uses the standard i386 NT but presumably SGI have had write drivers for the proprietry h/w?. This machine just goes to show what the i386 processor is capable of when you remove the need to maintain backward compatibility with yesterdays technology, graphics data bandwidth is *six* times that of the AGP 2x bus, and what about that wide-screen LCD display (drool). I pointed out to a Windows-ite in the office that it takes a Unix company, free from the shackles of backward-compatibility, to show what the P-II is really capable of. His reply was "It takes a Unix company to produce incompatible, non-standard hardware" and then went rambling on about how important it was to continue supporting the 8.33MHz ISA bus on half-GHz PCs :-( SPECIAL OFFER: Free with every copy of Windows, a pair of blinkers. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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