Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 10:18:02 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: NT an 4 processors Message-ID: <199609280818.KAA25068@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Sorry for the subject - I know you are all working hard on FreeMSD SMP Someone here is praising NT and having it run on a 4 processor board. Is there some striking argument against doing multiprocessing under NT? My arguments are always: 1) NT doesn't have remote administrability (not telnet service) 2) NT doesn't have to plethora of tools like shells, networking tools. NFS, etc. 3) NT doesn't have the good support that a free OS has - for whatever reasons. 4) NT costs license fees to Bill Gates. Any more cons? pros: 1) NT was designed for SMP resp. is SMP capable out of the box. The wind is blowing into my face now here - It's getting harder to withstand all these arguments based on precalculations that NT will become the future OS even in the scientific computing world. Former VMS crews at CERN are already weaponing for taking over the computing world with NT. And I'm only waiting for the day when CERN says: "We are only developing under NT and our CERNlib is only maintained under NT". --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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