Paul Rider wrote in a message to Rob Landley:

 PR> I have os/2 Warp 3.0... What's this about multiple
 PR> processors ? How would one go about it? Special hardware, or
 PR> is there some kinda VLB card out there with another cpu on
 PR> it ? I would be especially interested in doing this... Or
 PR> when I upgrade, upgrading to a platform with multiple
 PR> processors.

You buy a motherboard that has multiple processors on it, and then you buy
a different version of OS/2 called "OS/2 SMP" that supports your
motherboard.

Provided that OS/2 applications are written with proper care for semaphores
and so on, they should run directly on SMP, although subtle bugs that were
otherwise harmless can often be exposed.  OS/2 device drivers may require
extensive reworking in rare cases.

 PR> Please advise... and what does the 'SMP' in os/2 smp mean?

"Symmetric Multi-Processing."
 
-- Mike


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