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From: torek@elf.bsdi.com (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Support Dual CPU !!
Date: 3 Sep 1995 17:48:09 -0700
Organization: Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
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In article <42cgbt$qpr@hops.entertain.com> Darryl Watson
<dwatson@abwam.com> wrote:
>When I asked BSDi about this 6 months ago, they said they had NO plans
>to add symmetric multiprocessing capabilities to their OS.  :(
>
>They may have changed their mind(s) since then...

Note that there is a big difference between symmetric multiprocessing
and asymmetric multiprocessing.

This is not an official statement from BSDI. :-)
-- 
In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Berkeley Software Design Inc
Berkeley, CA	Domain:	torek@bsdi.com	+1 510 549 1145
  `... if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as
   ``lines produced'' but as ``lines spent.'' '  --Edsger Dijkstra