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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!sgigate.sgi.com!newsfeeder.sdsu.edu!news.iag.net!news.math.psu.edu!news.cse.psu.edu!uwm.edu!fnnews.fnal.gov!unixhub!news.Stanford.EDU!not-for-mail From: akyol@lightning.Stanford.EDU (Bora Akyol) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: dual processors Date: 11 Jul 1996 14:51:48 -0700 Organization: none Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4s3t1k$n0s@lightning.Stanford.EDU> References: <31C67EA0.9E0C259@unix.sri.com> <Pine.ULT.3.91.960705140128.3415E-100000@blaze.trentu.ca> <31DD7D6D.5A46CCCD@lambert.org> <4s3ok2$go3@news.abs.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lightning.stanford.edu In article <4s3ok2$go3@news.abs.net>, Bill Larduskey <lbill@u1.abs.net> wrote: >Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote: >: Gary S. McKenzie wrote: >: ] On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, Scott Banachowski wrote: >: ] >: ] > Does FreeBSD support dual processor motherboards? >: ] > Just curious. >: ] > I booted up a dual-Pentium with the boot floppy, >: ] > and it appeared to only recognize a single CPU. >: ] > >: ] > If it doesn't support 2 processors, does anyone >: ] > know of an operating system that does (besides >: ] > NT please)? Or when FreeBSD will support it? >: ] > >BSDI will support multi-processors in August ( I'm told ) so >Free BSD shouldn't be far behind....... NCR's MP-RAS is >fully multi-processor btw. > Linux also supports SMP compliant dual pentium machines. You may want to check their web page at http://www.linux.org since I am not that current with linux. Bora -- Bora Akyol Stanford University akyol@stanford.edu http://wireless.stanford.edu/~akyol