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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Multi-Processor support Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 00:44:25 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 11 Message-ID: <31E753D9.446B9B3D@FreeBSD.org> References: <4ricqm$4c4@news.ci.ua.pt> <31DD780F.10805367@lambert.org> <31E46812.3C4D@cyberpark.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5a (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: "Brent N. Hunter" <bhunter@cyberpark.com> Brent N. Hunter wrote: > I was told that FreeBSD doesn't support multiprocessors -- for example, > a dual-Pentium system. Is this not the case? FreeBSD supports dual-Pentium systems and is running on a number of them right now. You'll just have to wait a bit until after 2.1.5 is out and the maintainers of FreeBSD-SMP can merge their changes back into 2.2-current. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project