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From: gary@palmer.demon.co.uk (Gary Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Dual Pentium processors supported?
Date: 19 Oct 1995 21:08:59 +0100
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In article <DGpD03.L2B@news.iceonline.com>,
Brian McGhee <brianm@iceonline.com> wrote:
>Does anyone know if FreeBSD 2.0.5 or 2.1.0 supports dual pentium
>processors?

The code for SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessing) is in development,
but is not in 2.0.5 and will not be in 2.1 (since 2.1 is a stable,
only bugs fixed type release...). I would hope to see progress on
SMP support after 2.1 is out the door.

>Not just will it run on a machine with dual pentiums but will it take
>advantage of both CPU's.

Not yet.

Gary