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From: jfc@mit.edu (John Carr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Multiprocessor support?
Date: 19 Nov 1995 16:05:43 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
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In article <1995Nov18.182807.1907@wavehh.hanse.de>,
Martin Cracauer <cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de> wrote:

>>>Is multiprocessor support planned for either Net- or Free- BSD?

>>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.

What about asymmetric multiprocessor support?  That should be
much easier.

-- 
    John Carr (jfc@mit.edu)