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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!bubba.ucc.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.moneng.mei.com!uwm.edu!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!engr.orst.edu!mycroft.ECE.ORST.EDU!langles From: langles@mycroft.ECE.ORST.EDU (Scott Langley) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Symmetric Multi-Processing for PC Unix? Date: 30 Jan 1995 18:25:01 GMT Organization: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Corvallis Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3gjatt$b9u@engr.orst.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mycroft.ece.orst.edu Has any work been done on adding support for symmetric multiprocessing to any free UNIX for the PC? Such hardware platforms seem to be coming out, ever more frequently these days. For example, I have seen in recent issues of InfoWorld announcements for a CompAdd Dual-Processor Pentium-90 system, listing for $5,995. A DEC dual Pentium system lists for $8,699. Other manufactures make such systems, as well. The way the prices for PC's and PC components are plummenting, I think that cheap multi-processor x86 systems will soon have a greater price/performance ration than Sun's, HP PA-RISC's, SGI's, etc., for workstation-grade applications. Anyone else have thoughts on this? Scott Langley Grad Student in EE Oregon State University langles@ece.orst.edu