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From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <sysop@mixcom.com>
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Subject: Re: The jump to 3 
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On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote:

> 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?

Symmetric Multi-Processing.
 
> I'm acronym'd out right now.

*sympathy*


 Ben

"You have your mind on computers, it seems."