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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Sun refugee (BSD-bigot) seeks OS for Pentium Pro system....
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 11:31:13 -0700 (MST)
Cc: jparnas@jparnas.cybercom.net, questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199601282309.JAA08285@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jan 29, 96 09:39:29 am
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> > 1.  Will a MP system work with freebsd with one processor OK, and 
> >     multiprocessors?  Is the MP support planned in the future (or currently
> >     supported) and what type (spreading out the processes or, having a multi-
> >     threading compiler and kernel)
> 
> Yes, FreeBSD runs happily on one processor in an MP system.  MP support 
> exists in some shape, and its direction is largely dependant on having
> someone take control of the project and drive it forwards.

Actually, it wants the locore.s changes that Peter Wemm was working on,
after which low grain parallelism can be integrated.

8-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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