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Date:      Fri, 3 Feb 1995 07:17:29 +30000
From:      Ron Minnich <rminnich@mini.sarnoff.com>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Does FreeBSD supports SMP??
Message-ID:  <Pine.SGI.3.90.950203071604.6397C-100000@mini.sarnoff.com>
In-Reply-To: <199502030009.QAA22881@freefall.cdrom.com>

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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

Ron Minnich                |We can think of C++ as the Full Employment Act 
rminnich@earth.sarnoff.com |for Programmers. After all, with each compiler
(609)-734-3120             |version change, you have to rewrite all your code.





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