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SMP Now In OpenBSD HEAD

Posted by Hemos on from the joining-the-core dept.

A number of people dropped e-mails this morning saying that OpenBSD has now got SMP, according to a post from Niklas Hallqvist.

8 of 194 comments (clear)

  1. Hooray! by jb.hl.com · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now it can die with super SMP efficiency and at double the speed!

    Just kidding, mods don't hurt me :)

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    1. Re:Hooray! by turgid · · Score: 4, Funny
      Now it can die with super SMP efficiency and at double the speed!

      Depending on the implementation, it could only be 1.5 times the original speed. In certain special cases, a good implementation might be able to make it die at 2.1 times the speed or greater.

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    2. Re:Hooray! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Ahh, heck, 2.1X is nothing--a really bad implementation could just die instantly. :-)

  2. Uh oh, here comes SCO! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    BSD could not have become so popular so quickly without IBM taking the SCO code, putting it in Linux where the BSD people took GPL code put it under BSD license and then.... and anyway, this is based on Minix, because no one person could have written BSD, and AT&T probably would sue them for this anyway. This is hurting american economic... GPL is communistic... and Alex de Tocqueville said that... BSD is dying anyway..

    Oh man. I just give up.

  3. Re:Time to move openbsd.org to OpenBSD then ... by kunudo · · Score: 1, Funny

    *cough* hotmail *cough*

  4. SMP is ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    SMP is Soviet Magnetic Pulse. Much better than the imperialist running dog american's electro magnetic pulse.

    And we proved it by running simulation code aquired by KGB and running on our dual 4.7 MHz 8088 CPU symmetric multi processing computer.

  5. Re:What's SMP? by tehcyder · · Score: 2, Funny
    symmetric multiprocessing...I believe M$ invented it for Windows NT ;-)

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  6. Netcraft confirms that QNX... by CaptainPinko · · Score: 2, Funny

    must suck. They seem to be hosting their site on Linux. Wow, now that word is out I doubt anyone will ever use them them again!!! QNX must be dying...

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