Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 08:56:31 -0500 (EST) From: Steve <shovey@buffnet.net> To: David Greenman <dg@root.com> Cc: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <sysop@mixcom.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The jump to 3 Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970326085607.27418H-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <199703260735.XAA10959@root.com>
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On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, David Greenman wrote: > >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. > I was too chicken to ask this, and am glad it was asked! You guys are just as smart as you get !
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