[geeks] A Real OS? (was: Re: my capitalization.. etc.)
Joshua D Boyd
jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Sun May 19 23:45:09 CDT 2002
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 10:35:27PM -0500, Eric Dittman wrote:
> > More choices are not always better. Especially since most PeeCee
> > hardware is rushed to market and designed to be obsolete before
> > everybody finds the massive amounts of bugs.
>
> Right now the piece of hardware I really need supported to
> use *BSD is Sun's SBUS FDDI card.
I personally would love to see the cresendo cards supported. To my
understanding they have SMT in hardware.
For the sun boards to work, I'm told that software SMT is needed. On the
upside, if they are made to work, we probably would see a lot more FDDI
support for all *BSD platforms added quickly.
--
Joshua D. Boyd
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