> That so many communities failed to acknowledge the inevitable rise of SMP systems still amazes me. What? NetBSD most certainly didn't fail to acknowledge the

> That so many communities failed to acknowledge the inevitable rise of SMP systems still amazes me. What? NetBSD most certainly didn't fail to acknowledge the inevitable rise of SMP systems. These boards lacked SMP support because SMP support is a lot of work, every chip is different (unlike x64), very few people know how to work on this, there are very few people working on the NetBSD kernel, and most chips don't have open documentation. You make it sound like these people were like "SMP... shit, who needs this?".