[rescue] SMP on intel wasteful?

[Kevin Loch]

Chris Hedemark wrote:

>On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 15:45, Kurt Huhn wrote:
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>>Crusty old OS?  Which one would that be?  DOS?  $20k for a DOS computer
>>with an x86 processor?  I don't think so...
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>More like Solaris or IRIX.  OS's that come out of the box with all ports
>open ready to go.
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>The best upgrade I ever did on a uniprocessor sun4u was install
>OpenBSD.  I'm still not sold on Linux on MP sparc boxen (or even
>uniprocessor sparc boxen).
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ObOldFart: "Security is a process, not a product."  Which OS is "secure"
out of the box is *never* a part of the decision making process.

That reminds me of a comment a boss made about 7 years ago.  We were
joking about M$ claiming that NT was C2 Compliant-- only when it
wasn't connected to a network.  He grabbed his coffe mug and said
"yeah, This coffee cup is C2 compliant until you hook it to a network!"  

KL