From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 25 23:18:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA22374 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 23:18:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from mixcom.mixcom.com (mixcom.mixcom.com [198.137.186.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA22368 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 23:18:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by mixcom.mixcom.com (8.6.12/2.2) id BAA03380; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 01:20:16 -0600 Received: from p75.mixcom.com(198.137.186.25) by mixcom.mixcom.com via smap (V1.3) id sma003353; Wed Mar 26 07:20:01 1997 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970326011251.00d3e4ac@mixcom.com> X-Sender: sysop@mixcom.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 01:12:51 -0600 To: dg@root.com From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: The jump to 3 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 06:50 AM 3/25/97 -0800, David Greenman wrote: >>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. What does SMP stand for? I'm acronym'd out right now. ------------------------------------------- Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator jeff@mixcom.net MIX Communications Serving the Internet since 1990