Recent content by mshigorin

Erm, Itanic started off in 2001 and here's what Linux 2.4.0's arch/ looked like already: alpha arm i386 ia64 m68k mips mips64 parisc ppc s390 sh sparc sparc64 What I've quoted was sure being hyped by wintel camp but not true at all back at the day. Those layers have started off with SSOoO...

Some article proofreading in case Anton sees this: Definitely not the first: we've got 4.4 and 804 servers that employ quad 4C and 8C, accordingly; don't remember what was up with 2C, IIRC there were dual-CPU configurations possible. These are available already, and we can port ALT...

Exactly. And it already is: sdelanounas.ru/blog/shigorin :-) In fact, MCST tends to ship single and quad systems -- 4C, 8C and 16C are all Quad Capable in Xeon speak -- even if I've tested their 802 model and it worked too. These are good enough for some of us already: 125 thousand roubles...

Others tried borrowing (the Transmeta guy previously worked at Sun where he learned about MCST -- which was founded as Moscow Center for SPARC Technology back in 1990s) or brute stealing (Intel hijacked Babayan and a bunch of others from MCST). It's not enough, and fortunately the real compiler...