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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Does NetBSD support for multi-CPU (Sparc ) ?
Date: 19 May 1995 18:24:10 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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Message-ID: <3pinoa$1gc@park.uvsc.edu>
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"Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org> wrote:
] In article <3parjn$gtd@crl.crl.com>, Gary E. Grant <ggrant@crl.com> wrote:
] >NO.. What you need first is a thread-safe CLIB, then you need to
] >threadsafe the kernel... Then you need to multithread the kernel, then
] >multithread the drivers, revamp the scheduler ... etc
] >
] So what are you waiting for :-)
]
] I'd love a SPARC su4m port of NetBSD :-)
Most probably, a machine.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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