On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
> > that giant a project, but it would not be particularly useful. If there
> > were a good linux on some other very large ccNUMA machine, then an Origin
> > port would be much simpler. By "good", I mean a linux which scale well
> > for large (greater than 32) processor and I/O count (many I/O buses
> > and thousands of disk). It expect such a linux will happen eventually,
> > but not yet.
Boy would it be fun to work on that port. Origin2000s are seriously cool.
I am getting 9 new Origin2000 systems in about 6 weeks. I wonder if
Sprint would mind if I used one for Linux porting... :-)
J.
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