Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:24:10 -0400 (EDT) From: "Paul D. Robertson" <proberts@clark.net> To: Robert Hanson <roberth@cet.com> Cc: Andrew Stesin <stesin@gu.net>, firewalls@GreatCircle.COM, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SYN floods - possible solution? (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.960913092037.25086D-100000@clark.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.94.960913043223.30937J-100000@cet.cet.com>
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On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Robert Hanson wrote:
> im thinking dec alpha with 64 bit OS...
>
> is there 64 bit FreeBSD coming? Evidently Linus is working on
> Linux/Alpha...
Linux/Alpha is real now, not "being worked on", and is pretty much
merged into the current devel. tree, Sparc/Linux is very close to being
officially part of the source tree as well.
RedHat sells a Linux distribution for the Alpha on CD, though as of 2.0,
any distribution should be find, and you can always FTP it.
>
> IMHO pentiums are consumer class product (read affordable for most).... my
> observations are that other than "basic" affordability pentium stuff isnt
> really scalable... every new chip only affords "price" hosabilty cycle all
> over again for the mfgs....
It's still I/O speed for the most part, and the AXP systems have PCI buses
just like the Pentiums.
Paul
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