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To: Steve <shovey@buffnet.net>
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Subject: Re: The jump to 3 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 06:50:02 -0800
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>If this was asked and answered before I do apologize to everyone.
>
>Im just curious - why after stepping 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 (etc) is freeBSD going
>to 3.0?

   The 3.0 release will have SMP support and this is a major change in
technology that needs a bump in the major version number.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project