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From: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Support Multiple processors?
Date: 5 Feb 1997 16:52:37 GMT
Organization: FreeBSD makes fun
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In article <32F79058.794BDF32@dune-concept.com>,
	Sebastien GIORIA <sebastien@dune-concept.com> writes:
> The Bells wrote:
>> 
>> Does FressBSD support multiple processors right out of the box, or is there
>> a special version for that?  If so, what is the max. number?
> 	FreeBSD 3.0 does support for Pentium and Pentium Pro multiprocessor but
> I don't known how.

It's not in the main source tree ... You need a FreeBSD-current machine
to start with and grab a special sys smp source tree using cvsup.

For more information:

	http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html

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