Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 01:41:02 -0800 (PST) From: Robert Swindells <swindellsr@genrad.co.uk> To: jabley@clear.co.nz Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD for Strongarm? Message-ID: <199811030941.BAA15702@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <19981103134830.B11452@clear.co.nz> (message from Joe Abley on Tue, 3 Nov 1998 13:48:30 %2B1300)
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>Re: announcement copied below - a StrongARM RedHat distribution would >give some more background reading for FreeBSD porting, with the usual >BSD/GPL caveats. Corel Computer already have Linux on their NetWinder, my reading of the announcement is just that they are making it look the same as RH 5.1. >There is also a cool idea brewing in the UK to mount 6 or 8 233MHz >StrongARM CPUs on a single dual-bus PCI card, each processor with its >own RAM and flash for booting: > > http://www.chaltech.com/ > http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/sa-beowulf > >Now _that_ would be a compact platform for clustering - a nasty old >P90 motherboard to act as an NFS server and router, and 32 x 233MHz >StrongARM processors running IP over the PCI bus. All in a single >mini-tower chassis. Mmmmmm. That does smell good :) Chaltech currently do a single processor ATX motherboard which seems to be one of the cheapest ways to get a development system. Robert Swindells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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