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From: root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson)
Subject: Re: Symmetric Multi-Processing
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Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 18:58:41 GMT
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In article <4lr4q9$788@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Nick Kralevich <nickkral@america.CS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
>
>FreeBSD doesn't support SMPs.  However, if you have the source code

The RELEASED Linux kernels don't support SMP!!!  More misinfo from Nick!!!
FreeBSD-SMP will be out, but we tend to be very careful in our estimations
of what really works.

If you want to experiment, you can do so with FreeBSD (Terry is running
that effort right now), or you can do so with the EXPERIMENTAL Linux
kernels.

John