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From: akyol@lightning.Stanford.EDU (Bora Akyol)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: dual processors
Date: 11 Jul 1996 14:51:48 -0700
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In article <4s3ok2$go3@news.abs.net>, Bill Larduskey <lbill@u1.abs.net> wrote:
>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.
>

Linux also supports SMP compliant dual pentium machines.
You may want to check their web page at http://www.linux.org since
I am not that current with linux.

Bora

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Bora Akyol
Stanford University
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