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To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net>
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@dk.tfs.com>
Subject: Re: Quad Pro 150 motherboard? 
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In message <199704281754.KAA28971@MindBender.serv.net>, "Michael L. VanLoon -- 
HeadCandy.com" writes:

>There's nothing inherent in the design of NT that restricts it even to
>8-way.

Uhm, no.  The limit is 16.  This is because certain stuff is kept as
two bits per CPU in one word of memory.  Minor recompiling would fix
this limit though.

Anybody know what Intel/DOE will run on the 9144*PPro machine they're
building ? 

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