Re: [cobalt-developers] XTR Kernel

["William L. Thomson Jr." <support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bruce,

On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 15:43, Bruce Timberlake wrote:
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> > Yes, I am not to upset on the hardware, except that I can't use all
> > of it. Dual proc board, with a single proc. The software is another
> > story all together. It's limiting the hardware.
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> The BIOS/ROM does not support the 2nd CPU.  

There goes that idea.

> During XTR development, it 
> was intended to be a dual CPU-capable server, but money and release 
> schedules got in the way, and it was never QA'd.

All understandable, but it seems no future plans were made either? Like
to have another release or something? I mean there has been some time
since the initial inception of the XTR. If thoughts were to possible do
a dual proc unit, why not on the 550. Why wait until the LX50 which goes
after a slightly different market.

I would consider buying a LX50 now. I would not have at the time I first
started working with Cobalt's or bought one.

> (There was at one 
> point a dual CPU XTR running in the hardware lab at Cobalt; all that 
> remained was SMP-izing most of the apps, LCD drivers, etc...) 

Thanks for lifting up the skirt, but I avoid strip clubs because what's
the point of being teased. ;)

> Then 
> Sun acquired Cobalt just as the XTR was being released, and it kind 
> of got lost in the shuffle, especially with all the other harware 
> problems that cropped up.

So that's that. The XTR had potential, that it will never achieve.

Now it's the problem that everyone just wants to go away.
The rotten apple.

-- 
Sincerely,
William L. Thomson Jr.
Support Group
Obsidian-Studios Inc.
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