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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Dual Pentium processors supported?
Date: 28 Oct 1995 01:48:48 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) wrote:
]
] Brian McGhee (brianm@iceonline.com) wrote:
] : Does anyone know if FreeBSD 2.0.5 or 2.1.0 supports dual pentium
] : processors?
] 
] No.

An experimental branch of 2.0.5 does.  Patches are available from
Jack Vogel's account on FreeFall (Jack's the guy who did the
FreeBSD SPARC port).

> : Not just will it run on a machine with dual pentiums but will it take
> : advantage of both CPU's.
> 
> Nope.

Works great on my box...


                                        Terry Lambert
                                        terry@cs.weber.edu
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