True. And we'd have the same issues with this processor family now... Don't get me wrong, I love Linux and loved FreeBSD back when it was more easy to choose.

True. And we'd have the same issues with this processor family now... Don't get me wrong, I love Linux and loved FreeBSD back when it was more easy to choose... But I do think the 'free UNIX' movement has had unintended consequences like the demise of Sun, and perhaps now also this exposing of a failure in what was a desktop class chip architecture that was elevated to server usage. Everything has a cost is all I'm saying.