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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.new-york.net!nonexistent.com!not-for-mail From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein) Subject: Re: New 3.0-SNAP [was Re: infinite loop in sysinstall] X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] X-Complaints-To: Email abuse@news2.new-york.net if this posting is inappropriate Lines: 27 Organization: Putnam Internet Services Message-ID: <E9yEv5.IG6@nonexistent.com> References: <5kije3$7ke$2@news9.gte.net> <336D27CA.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> <slrn5mupgs.1mq.pavanas@nomina.ccia.com> <33714FFB.446B9B3D@FreeBSD.org> <E9vwLD.EFz@nonexistent.com> <337314B2.15FB7483@FreeBSD.org> <E9xKAH.IBJ@nonexistent.com> <3373FBB8.3F54BC7E@FreeBSD.org> X-Trace: 863248573 28936 le [165.254.191.2] X-Nntp-Posting-Host: main.put.com Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 07:16:17 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40674 Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@FreeBSD.org) wrote: : Louis Epstein wrote: : : > ALPHA support? : > Will FreeBSD-x86 and FreeBSD-DEC ALPHA be separately released then? : : No, I think we'll be doing it pretty much "NetBSD style" - e.g. : syncronized releases across all (two :-) supported platforms. But on the same or different CDs? : > As far as SMP goes,I see you have plans for a four processor version, : > and know Intel has been involved with massively parallel supercomputing; : > will FreeBSD one day be able to handle mainframes and supers and drive : > the "unfree" OS people out of business? : : I doubt that we'll be driving anyone out of business, but I certainly : hope to see FreeBSD running on truly aggressive SMP implementations, : yes. Well,by year end it should be possible to show off a 3.0 release on a four-Pentium II-300MHz system,and demonstrate how it benchmarks the pants off a Pentium-75 running WinNT and a Pentium-90 running Linux,and start some cool flamewars... Meanwhile,I note that the README on the /pub/FreeBSD top directory still says the current RELEASE is 2.1.6!