From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Apr 28 11:04:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA28272 for smp-outgoing; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 11:04:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.dk.tfs.com (phk.cybercity.dk [195.8.129.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA28243; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 11:04:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.dk.tfs.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA00293; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 20:03:12 +0200 (CEST) To: Terry Lambert cc: black@zen.cypher.net (Ben Black), kory@avatar.com, brownie@earthling.net, csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk, smp@freebsd.org From: Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: Quad Pro 150 motherboard? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 28 Apr 1997 10:17:05 PDT." <199704281717.KAA02093@phaeton.artisoft.com> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 20:03:12 +0200 Message-ID: <291.862250592@critter> Sender: owner-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199704281717.KAA02093@phaeton.artisoft.com>, Terry Lambert writes: >The PPro's are stackable without additional electronics external >to the processor. This makes it a *lot* easier to do multiple >CPU's up to large numbers. The original design was for up to four PP's to be stackable. Unfortunately it transpired to not be the case (for reasons for signal integrity I belive, and therefore 4*PP cards have a number of buffers more than 2*PP cards. >My goal would be to have incremental compiles going on in edit sessions >so that when I was done editing, the code was read to run. I hate this >"wait for the compile" BS. Ever seen or heard about the TeX WYSIWYG computer built with InMos transputers ? :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Power and ignorance is a disgusting cocktail.