|  Furthermore I don't see why using 1.6 as a base for an experimental branch
|  would give you any benefits over doing what MP-UPDATING suggests.

  Perhaps I was getting a carried away a bit. I thought it would make
sense to give people running 1.6 on an MP-machine a simple possibility
to try out an MP-kernel, without running into incompatibilities with
gdb/vmstat/ipfilter/whatever. Silly idea?

	mjl