[rescue] SMP on intel wasteful?

[Brian Hechinger]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 04:30:59PM -0400, 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.

this has been covered already.  ;)

> 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).

what do you use it for?  you may be pleasantly surprised with how Sol 9 is.

-brian
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