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From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Subject: Re: SMP on Alpha?
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On 2000-Mar-10 12:06:18 +1100, Mikhail Teterin <mi@video-collage.com> wrote:
>Will the -current version of FreeBSD  run on a multi-CPU axp machine and
>use all of  the CPUs?

Not yet, but Real Soon Now.

> Would that  be a reliable box  (assuming the admin
>sometimes knows  what he  is doing)?

-current comes with all the usual `not for production use' caveats,
and (without any slur on Doug Rabson, who's doing the work), you'd
be very game taking FreeBSD's first cut at Alpha/SMP and putting it
into production.

Peter


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