BeOS, do you mean Berkley OS? On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Visakh <gokulda...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Syam Krishnan <sya...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Even before multicore procesors became common, there were > multi-processor systems. So operating systems have been handling multiple > processors for a long time. So you need not worry about that. > > Just some off-topic info related to this. Back in the early 90s > there was one proprietary Desktop-specific OS which did an amazing job > on SMPs. It was BeOS. Back when multicore processors were not even > imagined for home use, even before windoze became a multiuser system, > it could run on upto 8 separate processors. We could even control how > many processors it used. It did back then what many OSs struggle to do > even today- play a dozen media files without jerking. Unfortunately it > died a premature death at the hands of an 'all powerful monopolistic > corporation'. > > Now there is an Open source project which strives to bring BeOS back > to life: the Haiku project. Their emphasis is on efficiency and > integrity of the system. They don't even use the X server. The project > seems to be undergoing some interesting development now. > > Another OS which has great SMP support is Solaris. I wrote a school > assignment on OSs- long before OpenSolaris was released. From then, I > remember that it could support a 64 node SMP. That is impressive since > SMPs are extremely hard to scale beyond 8 due to severe bus > bottlenecks (NUMA is used after that). Now it seems to have risen to > 128 nodes! So if you are looking for a large sever OS, openSolaris may > be the answer. > > And now info that really does matter. WinXP (Pro) seems to support > only 2 cores - not useful on a quad core (please note!) . And Linux > may be able to support 32 node SMPs. (Makes me wonder what the > condition of the bus will be like! ) > > Regards, > Gokul Das > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
