Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 11:31:13 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: jparnas@jparnas.cybercom.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sun refugee (BSD-bigot) seeks OS for Pentium Pro system.... Message-ID: <199601291831.LAA03878@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199601282309.JAA08285@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jan 29, 96 09:39:29 am
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> > 1. Will a MP system work with freebsd with one processor OK, and > > multiprocessors? Is the MP support planned in the future (or currently > > supported) and what type (spreading out the processes or, having a multi- > > threading compiler and kernel) > > Yes, FreeBSD runs happily on one processor in an MP system. MP support > exists in some shape, and its direction is largely dependant on having > someone take control of the project and drive it forwards. Actually, it wants the locore.s changes that Peter Wemm was working on, after which low grain parallelism can be integrated. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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