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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Symmetric Multi-Processing
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 15:22:25 -0700
Organization: Me
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
]
] 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>.
Be aware that Jordan's idea of what constitutes "production
quality" is seriously biased... he's a release manager, and
has higher standards than most of us (hell, he has higher
standards than most release managers 8-) 8-)).
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.