What does smp mean?

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

Leandro Melo wrote:

>When i but my system, grub shows me 3 options for o.s. They are 
>- fedora core (2.6.5-1.358smp)
>- fedora core up (2.6.5-1.358)
>- other
>What's a smp kernel? What are exactly the diferences between these 2
>fedora versions?
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Simetric Multi Processing, in oder words support for multiple processors 
(2 and up)