[rescue] SMP on intel wasteful?

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Mon Jun 24 11:27:22 CDT 2002


On June 24, Chris Hedemark wrote:
> > I don't run smp on intel (seems like a waste), so NetBSD works really well
> > for me..  Well that and it's nice to be able to runthe same OS on all my
> > different platforms.
> 
> How is it a waste to have dual 1.7GHz processors on a *NIX box for less
> than $2,000?

  - There's more to computer performance than the clock speed of the
processor.

  - That's not a UNIX box.  It's a PeeCee running UNIX.

      -Dave

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