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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 07:17:29 +30000
From: Ron Minnich <rminnich@mini.sarnoff.com>
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Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD supports SMP??
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This one came up on netbsd again. You can do crude SMP by simply locking 
the kernel when a proc enters it. This works ok for 2-4 processors, and 
works well enough that AIX/370 used it for a few years. Takes about 
4KLOCS to implement. 

ron

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