On January 23, Eric Dittman wrote:
> Well, I can see that NetBSD won't be running on my main system
> any time soon, since I have two CPUs. I'm surprised to hear
> that NetBSD is just now supporting SMP as I thought that would
> have been supported already.
It took forever because most of the SMP code is machine-independent.
Since most of the groundwork is now done, the folks working on
different architectures only have the machine-specific stuff to do.
VAX followed Alpha by a matter of a couple of weeks at most, for
example.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf
Received on Wed Jan 23 2002 - 13:02:48 GMT