Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 12:46:05 -0500 From: Drew Sanford <drew@planetwe.com> To: Heredity Choice <stork@QNET.COM> Cc: leon Lei <leon_of_tasp@hotmail.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, leon@infinet.net Subject: Re: FreeBSD for Alpha Dual CPU Message-ID: <39EC905D.9AECB9D6@planetwe.com> References: <Pine.BSI.4.05L.10010171027480.5226-100000@cello.qnet.com>
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This is not entirely true. One of the Alpha developers is working on SMP for the Alpha right now. As to when it will be available, I cannot say, nor, probably, can anyone else for sure. All I can tell you is hang in there. Heredity Choice wrote: > > Neither FreeBSD nor NetBSD supports dual Alphas. For this you need Tru64 > UNIX, which, with its microkernel, can support any size cluster and will > soon be running the biggest supercomputer in the world. > > What are you doing that one Alpha processor is not enough? Not many people > need that kind of speed, and the developers probably do not feel any > urgent need to develop SMP for FreeBSD Alpha. > > Paul Smith > > On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, leon Lei wrote: > > > Hi fellows, > > > > Could anybody enlighten me the availability of a version of FreeBSD, > > which supports Dual Alpha Processors like 264DP? > > > > If there is no such thing yet, what would be the new release time? > > > > Your help is heartily appreciated. > > > > Leon > > -- Drew Sanford Systems Administrator Planetwe.com Email: drew@planetwe.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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