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To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <sysop@mixcom.com>
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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 23:35:11 -0800
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>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.

   Symetric Multi-Processing. ...the ability to have multiple CPUs
simultaneously executing processes on a machine.

-DG

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