Question of Capability

James Wilkinson james at westexe.demon.co.uk
Thu Jun 3 23:35:38 UTC 2004


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 ).

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