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From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
Subject: Re: Multiprocessor support?
Message-ID: <1995Nov18.182807.1907@wavehh.hanse.de>
Organization: BSD User Group Hamburg
References: <48e1sj$6i0@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> <48g5la$t8f@crl.crl.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 95 18:28:07 GMT
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ggrant@crl.com (Gary E. Grant) writes:

>In article <48e1sj$6i0@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>,
>John Carr <jfc@mit.edu> wrote:
>>Is multiprocessor support planned for either Net- or Free- BSD?
>>
>>-- 
>>    John Carr (jfc@mit.edu)

>The rumor(sic) :-) that I had heard is that MP is planned FreeBSD 2.4 or 2.5

Individuals are playing with SMP support for FreeBSD, not
more. There's absolutely no date or version number to tell.

Martin
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Martin Cracauer <cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de>  - BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany 
"As far as I'm concerned,  if something is so complicated that you can't ex-"
"plain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway"- Calvin