Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: Linux, the microkernel (was Re: latest linus-2.5 BK broken) | Date | Fri, 21 Jun 2002 22:25:22 +0200 |
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On Friday 21 June 2002 20:46, Cort Dougan wrote: > I don't see Linux being in serious jeopardy in the short-term of becoming > solaris. It only aims at running on 1-4 processors and does a pretty good > job of that. Most sane people realize, as Larry points out, that the > current design will not scale to 64 processors and beyond. That's obvious, > it's not an alarmist or deep statement. The key is to realize that it's > not _meant_ to scale that high right now.
And originally, it was never meant to scale to more than one processor.
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