Question of Capability

John Aldrich john at chattanooga.net
Fri Jun 4 16:41:55 UTC 2004


On Thursday 03 June 2004 07:35 pm, James Wilkinson wrote:
> John Aldrich wrote:
> > ALL flavors of *nix support Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP)
>
> Actually, that isn't true. OpenBSD doesn't (in the release versions:
> http://openbsd.org/faq/faq8.html#SMP ), and neither did early Linux
> (or System V until the early 1990s:
> http://www.att.com/news/0990/900918.ulb.html ).
>
Well, I sit corrected. :-) Maybe I should have said "all *modern* flavors of 
*nix support SMP" Every version of linux that I've used (starting with RH 5) 
support it, I think...
	John





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