What does smp mean?

[Steven Pasternak]

On Thursday 27 January 2005 19:20, Leandro Melo wrote:
> When i but my system, grub shows me 3 options for o.s. They are
> - fedora core (2.6.5-1.358smp)
> - fedora core up (2.6.5-1.358)
> - other
> What's a smp kernel? What are exactly the diferences between these 2
> fedora versions?
>
> --
> Leandro
Symetric Mutli Processors. The smp is for a system running 2+ processors, like 
maybe the athlon xp-m.