Subject: Re: 2.0 ... what's in it for me?
To: Mac 68k NetBSD <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Mark Benson <markbenson@mac.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/29/2004 08:25:09
On Apr 28, 2004, at 09:54 pm, thelarsons3@cox.net wrote:
> As I understand it, the "big thing" of the 2.0 release is good SMP. I
> assume this means good threading support. Not being a system hacker,
> this doesn't tell me much. So, simple question: what does 2.0 mean
> for mac68k?
As SMP is Synchronous Multi-Processing, I doubt there is much in it for
68k users (Mac or otherwise), but it will likely improve threading, as
similar features do in Mac OS X (which is after all FreeBSD based thus
not 100 miles away).
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