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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!apollo.hp.com!lf.hp.com!news.dtc.hp.com!col.hp.com!csn!ub!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.iij.ad.jp!news.CET.CO.JP!usenet From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison) Date: 20 Jan 1996 14:05:21 GMT Organization: CATENA Enterprise Technologies Lines: 31 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4dqsr1$351@diablo.cet.co.jp> References: <4cmopu$d35@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <bryDL5wtq.4Fo@netcom.com> <4dc00a$j2f@park.uvsc.edu> <bryDL7E84.LG3@netcom.com> <4dgjg8$78i@nntpb.cb.att.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: a15m.cet.co.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2N (Windows; I; 16bit) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2070 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2226 comp.unix.solaris:57946 comp.unix.aix:69278 dyson@inuxs.inh.att.com (John S. Dyson) wrote: >In article <bryDL7E84.LG3@netcom.com>, Bryan Althaus <bry@netcom.com> wrote: >> >>True. What I really was trying to say is that SunOS 4.1.x had pthreads >>slapped into it where as Solaris (among other OS's) was designed from the >>start to support threads with support throughout the kernel. Also >>designed in from the being with Solaris was support for SMP. I always >>here people say "Other than SMP .." as if it's trivial to have an OS >>support SMP. If it was so easy Linux and *BSD would have it. >> >Actually the main reason that FreeBSD doesn't have SMP right now (there >are people running SMP right now on FreeBSD, but it isn't ready for >product yet), is that many of the developers just do not have SMP machines. >If they were more common (in the X86 arena), we would most likely have it. >Since SMP on the X86 is becoming more and more real, with the Triton-II >chipset for P5 and the P6/Orion, you'll see SMP on FreeBSD soon. You may find it interesting that one of the recommended motherboards for running BSDI was a dual-pentium Neptune. Of course people were just buying them with one CPU. >John Dyson >dyson@freebsd.org > -- Mike Hancock michaelh@cet.co.jp