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From: Martin Nisshagen <martin@mts.se>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs. BSD:SMP support?
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 01:16:06 +0200
Organization: MTS Technology, Sweden
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Psychodad. wrote:
> 
> Does the current release support SMP?
> If it does how is it better than Linux?

Neither is very good SMP systems. If you want a good one my advice
is to go with a commercial OS like Solaris who has very good and
solid SMP capabilities. I'm sure that both Linux and FreeBSD will
get it in the future as well, but rigth now they are not at the
same level. (especially if you want to split multithreaded apps
on several CPU:s).

Best regards,

m a r t i n  n

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