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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Multiprocessor support
Date: 3 Aug 1995 06:00:32 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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Message-ID: <3vpom0$bu4@park.uvsc.edu>
References: <mcookson-2407952159030001@mcookson.sj.scruznet.com>
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mcookson@scruznet.com (Mark) wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of a free (or cheap) OS, preferably unix type, that
> supports symmetric multiprocessing on Pentium hardware?
FreeBSD, but the primary developer is not ready to release code
at the current low grain parallelism.
> I know Linux doesn't, I don't think FreeBSD does. I know you can get a
> special version of Windows NT and OS/2, but I don't really want to run
> them. I guess Mach would, but I don't know where to get a copy.
Mach can be obtained from CMU. Check their FTP sites.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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