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From: ron@caldera.com (Ron Holt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Dual Pentium MotherBoard.
Date: 2 Oct 1995 22:25:58 -0600
Organization: Caldera, Inc.
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In article <87viqdnf4u.fsf@interbev.mindspring.com>,
Robert Sanders  <rsanders@mindspring.com> wrote:
>On 28 Sep 1995 13:30:29 -0400, ted@oz.plymouth.edu (Ted Wisniewski) said:
>
>> 	I was not aware that Linux would currently do this, does it?
>> It was even mentioned in the article you "quoted".  Stop misleading
>> people.
>
>He's not.  There are a handful of Linux machines running on dual-CPU
>boards.  I believe Alan Cox is spearheading the SMP effort, with some
>company (Caldera?) funding it.
>
>  -- Robert

See http://www.linux.org.uk/SMP/title.html for details on this project.
Caldera simply bought Alan some SMP hardware to help get the project off
the ground.

Ron

-- 
Ron Holt <ron.holt@caldera.com> Caldera, Inc.