cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_pcpu.c

[Robert Watson]

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Tom Rhodes wrote:

>>>>> My 14-cpu machine thanks you :-)
>>>>
>>>> I'm curious:  what machine model is that?
>>>
>>> Who cares about model, can I borrow it.  :P
>>
>> A UE4500 is quite loud and quite hot.  Not a box I would want at home.
>
> Could heat the house during those cold winter nights.  :)

I remember my old sparcstation hardware at CMU with some fondness for this 
reason -- on a cold Pittsburgh evening, overheating computer hardware was 
strictly necessary, even in the presence of decent radiators.  However, 
with 14+ cooling fans for one machine, it did need to be a couple of rooms 
down.

Robert N M Watson