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From: lbill@u1.abs.net (Bill Larduskey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: dual processors
Date: 11 Jul 1996 20:36:18 GMT
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Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote:
: Gary S. McKenzie wrote:
: ] On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, Scott Banachowski wrote:
: ] 
: ] > Does FreeBSD support dual processor motherboards?
: ] > Just curious.
: ] > I booted up a dual-Pentium with the boot floppy,
: ] > and it appeared to only recognize a single CPU.
: ] >
: ] > If it doesn't support 2 processors, does anyone
: ] > know of an operating system that does (besides
: ] > NT please)?  Or when FreeBSD will support it?
: ] 

BSDI will support multi-processors in August ( I'm told ) so
Free BSD shouldn't be far behind.......  NCR's MP-RAS is
fully multi-processor btw.