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- From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
- Subject: Re: Symmetric MP
- Message-ID: <nlnm4cs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <1992Jul17.183501.26138@decuac.dec.com> <josef.711890540@uranium>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:14:31 GMT
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- In article <josef.711890540@uranium>, mollers.pad@sni.de (Josef Moellers) writes:
- > ...
- > In the early days of UN*X, source code flowed quite freely between
- > interested parties (modtly universities and other ersearch institutes),
- > because there was no commercial interest. Nowadays every single idea to
- > "enhance" UN*X spells "$$$", so everyone wanting to do MP will have to
- > roll their own dice.
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-
- Maybe not, if the very-cheap BSDI and the completely free Jolitz versions
- survive the paniced AT&T-USL legal attack.
-
-
- Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com
-