[rescue] SMP on intel wasteful?

[Kurt Huhn]

Chris Hedemark wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 15:45, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> 
> > Crusty old OS?  Which one would that be?  DOS?  $20k for a DOS computer
> > with an x86 processor?  I don't think so...
> 
> More like Solaris or IRIX.  OS's that come out of the box with all ports
> open ready to go.
> 
> 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).

The problem with running Linux or *BSD on an SGI is that you can't
(aside from an Indy, and even then it's barely useable).  I have a very
hard time thinking that *BSD or Linux on a sun4u is a good idea.  I know
some people who swear by it, but I can't quite wrap my brain around
that.  Also, I would hardly call Irix or Solaris crusty or old.  Both
have come a long way since they were originally offered.  Why would you
call them crusty or old?
-- 
Kurt
kurt at k-huhn.com