Dual-core processors and FreeBSD 6.0

Dev Tugnait dev at unixdaemon.org
Thu Dec 15 19:09:15 PST 2005


On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 18:57 -0800, Justin Franks wrote:
> Hello,
> I would like to know if FreeBSD 6.0 supports dual-core CPU chips. 

Yes

> Note, dual-core is different from dual CPU.
> On Jun. 13, 2005 PT Wired magazine explained a dual-core CPU as the following in a article titled "The New Chips on the Block"
> "A dual-core processor differs from a single-core chip in that it has two physical computer processing unit, or CPU, cores on a 
> single die."
> Link here:
> http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,67795,00.html
> 
> 
That googling energy should have been saved by visiting freebsd.org

http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64.html

> 
> -Justin Franks
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