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Re:NetBSD 9.2 by hulitu on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @10:24AM (#27194964)
It was not a sarcastic comment. I checked the release notes and found nothing about it. It's true that i haven't checked the development of BSDs lately. I remember just that only Dragonfly had a working SMP kernel, with FreeBSD strugling and OpenBSD just ignoring this issue. But this was around 8 years ago.
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Re:NetBSD 9.2 by purerandomness on Thursday May 20, 2021 @01:56PM (#27224635)
OpenBSD does support SMP since 2004, FreeBSD even earlier.

You seem to confuse SMP with Intel's "HyperThreading", which is disabled on OpenBSD due to security concerns (SPECTRE et al.) and which makes sense to default to in an OS that takes security seriously.

SMP and HyperThreading are completely different things.

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