We don't agree on any of these points. Scaling to a 16 way SMP pretty much
ruins the source base, even when it is done by very careful people.
> The main advantage of starting with a single OS image, as I see it, is
> that you have a system that works fine, but performs badly, from the
> outset.
Hey, I can make one of those :-)
Seriously, I went through this at SGI, that's exactly what they did, and it
was a huge mistake and it never worked.
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