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To: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
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On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Darren Reed wrote:

> > I can't answer the second question, but as to the first, all motherboards
> > available today use the Intel Apic design, not the OpenApic design that
> > the cpus other than Intel implement.  The meaning to that is, if it's not
> > an Intel CPU, you're not going to run SMP with it.
> 
> Does this include th ASUS motherboard which takes the CPU daughterboards ?

  Definitely.  Perhaps ASUS could make a daughtercard with OpenAPIC design
(or is the APIC on the motherboard not the daughtercard?).

> Darren

Tom