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On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, Kevin Massagli wrote:

> I am a novice FreeBSD and for that matter, Unix developer.  And Im trying
> to spec an Internet server with some power to stream videos.
> 
> Does FreeBSD support 2 dual processors, i.e. does it make adequate and
> efficient use of both the processors or am i wasting my money?

Yes, there is a SMP version of FreeBSD.  http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/

For video streaming, I bet you could get away with a P200 (or even 166)
and a PCI video card and get decent frame rates.  You might try asking in
multimedia@freebsd.org.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major