From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 26 05:56:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA09503 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 05:56:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA09498 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 05:56:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet1.buffnet.net (mmdf@buffnet1.buffnet.net [205.246.19.10]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA27753 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 08:56:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net by buffnet1.buffnet.net id aa06065; 26 Mar 97 8:56 EST Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 08:56:31 -0500 (EST) From: Steve To: David Greenman cc: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The jump to 3 In-Reply-To: <199703260735.XAA10959@root.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, David Greenman 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? > > > >I'm acronym'd out right now. > > Symetric Multi-Processing. ...the ability to have multiple CPUs > simultaneously executing processes on a machine. > I was too chicken to ask this, and am glad it was asked! You guys are just as smart as you get !