From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 1 00:41:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA10902 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 00:41:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (root@brosenga.Pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA10897 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 00:41:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA24987; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 00:41:49 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 00:41:49 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre To: Adam Bawor cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Two short questions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 1 Feb 1997, Adam Bawor wrote: > > Hello! > > I'm a CS student. Last week I purchased FreeBSD and I have two questions: > > 1. Does FreeBSD support symmetric multiprocessing? I have > a dual PentiumPro machine with FreeBSD installed on it, but > it seems that one processor is not used at all. It does in the 3.0-CURRENT branch, see http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp. > 2. I am interested in concurrent programming and I wonder if > there is a chance to get 'pthreads' library? Is there any > vendor, or a web site where I could get the library that would > work under FreeBSD? > > I would be very grateful if someone could answer these questions. > > Thank you. > > Adam Bawor > Ben The views expressed above are not those of the Worker's Compensation Board of Queensland, Australia.