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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Symmetric Multi-Processing
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 13:13:04 -0700
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To: Lance Heller <lance.heller@wcom.com>

Lance Heller wrote:
> I have an application requiring multiple cpu's and would like to use
> FreeBSD if it supports symmetric multi-processing.  Does it?

It's limping along on two processors at a couple of places, but nothing
I'd consider even close to production quality yet!  If you're interested
in gettting in on the ground floor, as it were, and possibly helping to
*make* this a production quality enhancement, please contact our SMP
project coordinator - Peter Wemm <peter@freebsd.org>.

Thanks!
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- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project