On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 08:25:09AM +0100, Mark Benson wrote:
> As SMP is Synchronous Multi-Processing, I doubt there is much in it for 

That's usually Symmetric Multi-Processing.  That's not the only change
by a long shot.  Erik posted a link to the changelog.  There's a lot of
good stuff in there, including a rather nice (in my opinion, anyway ;-)
native threading library.

Also, remember that this is a volunteer project--if you'd like to
contribute, your contributions would be most welcome.  If you're
looking for a project, I'm sure one could be found...  :-)

> similar features do in Mac OS X (which is after all FreeBSD based thus 

Actually, a fair bit of OS X comes from NetBSD.  At least used to.

-allen

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