[rescue] SMP on Open/NetBSD (was: Re: FSCKing OpenBSD!)

[Dave McGuire]

On February 14, David Passmore wrote:
> > > C'mon Dave, don't get anybody's hopes up. I've been hearing NetBSD SMP
> > > support for SPARC is really close since 1996.
> > 
> >   Uhh, what?  The SPARC-specific code wasn't even started until
> > sometime last year.
> 
> Actually, I remember this quite clearly: when I first bought my 4/600 (the
> 630 chassis, I believe), the group buy where a bunch of us got one-- I asked
> you about OS options, and we discussed how NetBSD/sparc was getting SMP
> support real soon now. :)

  Actually I said that the NetBSD folks were working on SMP
stuff...which they were.  That was all the machine-independent stuff
that's been under construction for a couple of years now.

     -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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