From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 25 10:42:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay2.inwind.it (relay2.inwind.it [212.141.53.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A630E37B4CF for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 10:42:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bartequi.ottodomain.org (62.98.162.146) by relay2.inwind.it (5.1.046) id 39CB0979008A4F3E; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 19:41:26 +0200 From: Salvo Bartolotta Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 18:42:58 GMT Message-ID: <20001025.18425800@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Subject: Re: SMP and 'blue screen' Was (no subject) To: john253@crosswinds.net Cc: Cafetyme@aol.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: SuperCalifragilis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 10/25/00, 5:47:51 PM, John Murphy wrote=20 regarding Re: SMP and 'blue screen' Was (no subject): > Alexandra wrote: > >I am told I need my SMP replaced that its going out . What is SMP and= =20 can I > >replace it myself? All I know is my computer keeps rebooting and=20 then saying > >I didn't shut down properly or it gets the blue screen or goes=20 completely > >blank . I was told my smp needs replaced. > Well, SMP means Simultaneous Multi Processor, ie. you have two or four= =20 CPUs > in your machine. Hello John, "SMP" stands for Symmetric MultiProcessing (or Multi[-]Processor). [ some_element ] means that the element is optional.=20 In other contexts, SMP stands for other things... Best regards, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message