Thus Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:53:17 +0100 (CET):
> Timo Schoeler wrote: > > Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > > Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > > > By the way, as far as I know, FreeBSD already runs on machines > > > > with a non-power-of-two number of cores: > > > > > > - I've still got a 6-way PPro motherboard in the closet > > > upstairs (and a number of such ran FreeBSD way back then last > > > millennium when they were impressively powerful systems :) > > > > Thanks for saving my time. It was built by a company that no longer > > exists, IIRC, but I don't remember its name. > > It's the ALR Revolution 6x6 board. It's a six-way SMP > socket-8 board that required a hell of a power supply > and was a good replacement for a radiator. I remember > several people running FreeBSD on it in the previous > century. Nowadays a single-core processor is probably > much faster and consumes a fraction of the power. > > Best regards > Oliver We had one machine of this type at the ISP I worked for in the 90ies. Don't remember the OS that ran on it, though. Nice machine, for x86 ;) _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"