SunOS 4.2 or 5.0 ??

[Eric Ho]

Will the kernel of release 4.2 or even 5.0 support cheap multiprocessors
desktops (when they do arrive) so that when I've more money to spend then
I can go out and buy and few more cpus (& maybe more RAMs), plug them into
my desktop and assign a few cpus to 2 or 3 windows where I'm
running/compiling several heavyweights and assign one or two for my code
development/debugging and maybe one to two for general purpose use.  I can
of course assign jobs to other nodes on the net but then those other nodes
are used by others in the lab and I'm not sure if they're pleased to have
those heavyweights banging on their nodes.  Well, I just hope that it'll
be general enough that can meet different unique needs (e.g if you don't
have enough money now then just get one cpu and when you've more money
later then buy more cpus).  This will change the Unix semantics somewhat
but it'll give people more choices I think.

Eric Ho
Cognitive Science Lab.,		Princeton University
email = eho at bogey.princeton.edu	voice = 609-987-2819
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