Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 23:35:11 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <sysop@mixcom.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The jump to 3 Message-ID: <199703260735.XAA10959@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Mar 1997 01:12:51 CST." <3.0.32.19970326011251.00d3e4ac@mixcom.com>
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>At 06:50 AM 3/25/97 -0800, David Greenman wrote: >>>If this was asked and answered before I do apologize to everyone. >>> >>>Im just curious - why after stepping 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 (etc) is freeBSD going >>>to 3.0? >> >> The 3.0 release will have SMP support and this is a major change in >>technology that needs a bump in the major version number. > >What does SMP stand for? > >I'm acronym'd out right now. Symetric Multi-Processing. ...the ability to have multiple CPUs simultaneously executing processes on a machine. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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