Subject: Re: 2.0 ... what's in it for me?
To: Mac 68k NetBSD <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Donald Lee <MacBSD68k-2@caution.icompute.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/29/2004 08:19:45
At 8:25 AM +0100 4/29/04, Mark Benson wrote:
>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).
>

That's Symmetric Multi Processing....

-dgl-