On Fri, 10 May 1996, Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote:

> 
> >> in the kernel at once in NetBSD (at least until SMP stuff gets worked on :)
> >[...]
> >> When SMP arrives, it'll have to put locks around manipulations such as
> >> this and/or recast them in a more MP-friendly paradigm.
> 
> >is anybody actively working on this (SMP)?
> >I've made my mind up and will buy the new board from ASUS P55T2P4D which
> >features two Pentium processors as soon as I can get hold of one here in
> >Germany.
> [...]
> >Any takers to join my effort?
> 
> You should talk to the FreeBSD people.  Evidentaly, they've been
> working on this for several months, already, and have an alpha SMP
> kernel that runs.
> 

Don't forget Linux either :-)

We are using a production SMP machine with PAW (Physics Analysis 
Workstation software), CERNlib, and our own custom fortran code for 
ongoing data analysis from DESY and CERN.

The machine is an ASUS Dual P133, with an equivalent power of 60% of
An AlphaPC64 300MHz machine (at 1/5 the cost).

SMP on this machine is rock solid, and has been up since mid March.
Our production Linux kernel is 1.3.68-SMP.

Cheers,
--
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