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> Worse than that, even the motherboards don't support Open Apic designs.
> Can't get there from here.

Does anyone know the real status of the whole Open APIC idea?  Last I
heard Cyrix and AMD weren't even actively working on implementing it.  Has
this changed?  It would be really nice to know what was going on in the
whole scheme of things.

Later......						<Doug>