[rescue] 670MP windfall in the surplus diving frenzy today.....

Dave McGuire rescue at sunhelp.org
Wed Jun 20 16:57:30 CDT 2001


On June 20, Dan Debertin wrote:
> There is still the holy grail of SMP support to worry about, too. Sparc
> seems to be last on the list; we even got VAX SMP before Sparc. I don't
> get it.

  For one, there are lots more models of multiprocessor VAXen than
their are SPARCs, and I suspect (though I haven't verified this) that
SMP is easier to do on a VAX than a SPARC.

  SPARC SMP will be along soon.

       -Dave McGuire



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