On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 12:11:28AM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 09:39:11AM +0200, Konrad Heuer wrote:
> >
> > The most important strength of NetBSD is its availability on many
> > different hardware platforms. If you plan to set up your servers on Intel
> > or DECalpha software, FreeBSD might do better for you. For example,
> > FreeBSD supports multi-processor systems, NetBSD does not. The FreeBSD
> > install program is more user-friendly.
>
> Just FYI, NetBSD does now have early SMP support. Initial x86 SMP code
> was commited Feb 22. Obviously, you probably don't want to go running a
> high-availibility server application on SMP code that's only a month
> old, but it's coming along.
I was under the assumption that NetBSD's SMP code only initializes the
second CPU, but never actually uses it for anything ...
/Jesper
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