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Date:      Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:09:09 +0100
From:      Timo Schoeler <timo.schoeler@riscworks.net>
To:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, timo.schoeler@riscworks.net
Cc:        Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: strace broken in 7.0?
Message-ID:  <20080111190909.76d7e1ab.timo.schoeler@riscworks.net>
In-Reply-To: <200801111753.m0BHrH3K016220@lurza.secnetix.de>
References:  <20080111161342.15fd5d9c.timo.schoeler@riscworks.net> <200801111753.m0BHrH3K016220@lurza.secnetix.de>

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Thus Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> spake on Fri, 11 Jan 2008
18:53:17 +0100 (CET):

> Timo Schoeler wrote:
>  > Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
>  > > Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
>  > > > By the way, as far as I know, FreeBSD already runs on machines
>  > > > with a non-power-of-two number of cores:
>  > >=20
>  > >   - I've still got a 6-way PPro motherboard in the closet
>  > > upstairs (and a number of such ran FreeBSD way back then last
>  > > millennium when they were impressively powerful systems   :)
>  >=20
>  > Thanks for saving my time. It was built by a company that no longer
>  > exists, IIRC, but I don't remember its name.
>=20
> It's the ALR Revolution 6x6 board.  It's a six-way SMP
> socket-8 board that required a hell of a power supply
> and was a good replacement for a radiator.  I remember
> several people running FreeBSD on it in the previous
> century.  Nowadays a single-core processor is probably
> much faster and consumes a fraction of the power.
>=20
> Best regards
>    Oliver

We had one machine of this type at the ISP I worked for in the 90ies.
Don't remember the OS that ran on it, though. Nice machine, for x86 ;)



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