From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 6 13:40:36 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA19209 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 Mar 1995 13:40:36 -0800 Received: from arthur.cs.purdue.edu (root@arthur.cs.purdue.edu [128.10.2.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA19202 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 1995 13:40:27 -0800 Received: from labgrader.cs.purdue.edu (root@labgrader.cs.purdue.edu [128.10.11.100]) by arthur.cs.purdue.edu (8.6.10/PURDUE_CS-1.3) with ESMTP id ; Mon, 6 Mar 1995 16:40:05 -0500 Received: from localhost (jha@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by labgrader.cs.purdue.edu (8.6.10/PURDUE_CS-1.3) with SMTP id ; Mon, 6 Mar 1995 16:20:51 -0500 Message-Id: <199503062120.QAA13106@labgrader.cs.purdue.edu> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Any SMP work being done? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 06 Mar 1995 10:54:09 MST." <9503061754.AA18587@cs.weber.edu> Date: Mon, 06 Mar 1995 16:20:49 -0500 From: jha@cs.purdue.edu ("John H. Aughey") Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <9503061754.AA18587@cs.weber.edu>, you wrote: > > provides bays for two chips. It provides up to 256K of zero-wait-state > > L2 cache for each engine and will run in single processor mode for non > > SMP OS's. (p 66) > Were the bays for 486, 386, or Pentium? The bays were for 486 chips at multiples of the current clock frequency. Your existing chip could be used as one of the processors. I would assume you probably could not mix different speed chips, but don't quote me on that. > Did it claim to follow the Intel MP spec? Didn't say. I was going to call the company to see if I could get any info just for curiosity. It would be nice, wouldn't it? > What did it cost, including processors (or processor, if a 486)? The quoted price was $499. Keep in mind that this was in the "New & Improved" section of PC Mag. The CPUs were not included, but as I said earlier, you can your your existing chip as one of them. > 800 number? Didn't have one. There is a regular number: 503-757-0934. I'm not premoting this product, it just caught my eye and sparked my interest in SMP for FreeBSD. --- John H. Aughey (Instructional Lab Administrator) jha@cs.purdue.edu