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Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 16:33:29 -0800 (PST)
From: Gene Buckle <geneb AT web DOT wa DOT net>
To: John Panettiere <jmarco AT cnct DOT com>
cc: "'OpenDOS newsgroup'" <opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
Subject: Re: [opendos] Multiprocessing
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On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, John Panettiere wrote:

> Does this DOS allow in any way for users to determine the number of
> processors on a system, and use them? 
> 

No.  OpenDOS can do multitasking and multithreading, but there is no
multi-processor support.  However, if you'd like to hack the Linux SMP
code to fit into OpenDOS, go for it! ;)

g.


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