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To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com>
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Subject: Re: One last call for a show of hands on the ALPHA port... 
Reply-To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 15:24:06 -0700
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On Tue, 06 May 1997 17:23:32 -0600 
 "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com> wrote:

 > How can you completely test changes to make your kernel multi-threaded if
 > you don't have support to start multiple processors?  I would think any

...even in a uniprocessor environment, you can get a pretty good idea
for how we'll you're doing if the kernel is preemtable (which is sort
of implied, if it's multi-threaded).

Jason R. Thorpe                                       thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
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