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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!decwrl!pa.dec.com!vixie From: vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) Subject: Re: PROJECT IDEA: Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) for 386BSD? In-Reply-To: merlin@neuro.usc.edu's message of 25 Jun 1992 04:45:20 -0700 Message-ID: <VIXIE.92Jun27105112@adelphi.pa.dec.com> Sender: news@PA.dec.com (News) Organization: DEC Network Software Lab References: <1992Jun25.070736.6370@iitmax.iit.edu> <l4jcegINNs1k@neuro.usc.edu> Date: 27 Jun 92 10:51:12 Lines: 20 PROJECT IDEA: get a free BSD working reliably and well on 386/486 machines, including X11 and all the rest of the freely-available software we all know and use. With all the volunteers who keep bringing up these new project ideas, we ought to have no trouble finishing what's already begun. And we _should_ finish it before we start talking about SMP or other wonderful but none- the-less sky(pie) ideas. Is anybody working on MSDOS emulation, for example? There are a lot of non-glamourous things that need to be and should be done before we branch out into the "funzies" like SMP. You know where your nose is. Pick a grindstone -- there's no shortage. -- Paul Vixie, DEC Network Systems Lab Palo Alto, California, USA "Ready, Fire, Aim" <vixie@pa.dec.com> decwrl!vixie <paul@vix.com> vixie!paul alt.pink.bunny.boom.boom.boom moderator