From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: erik quanstrom Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:52:34 -0400 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Dum-Bass question In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 32145ab6-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 one way to use equipment that does not boot plan 9 is to run a fileserver kernel on it. if you already have a cpu/auth server, this works out pretty well. my home fileserver is a dual processor pIII-based machine with a 440gx chipset and an 8169-based nic. obviously the fs doesn't use the second processor, but it's not cpu-bound anyway. - erik On Sun Mar 25 00:55:16 EDT 2007, lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote: > > Intel's 'HAL' idea of SMP in P3 days (or earlier - my first was an Asus with > > twin Pentium 90 MHz) was somewhat *bent*. Warp on one CPU was 40% faster than > > NT4 on two, and that held on P1 200 & PentiumPro 200 as well. > > How much can you tell me about this early equipment? I have such a > box and would dearly like to address its quirks as it is the only MP > device I own. Even Linux (and NetBSD, but that's easier to forgive) > barfs on it, but SCO Unix used to cope with it. > > ++L