Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 00:07:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Cc: dscheidt@enteract.com, ragnar@sysabend.org, tlambert@primenet.com, noslenj@swbell.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dual 400 -> dual 600 worth it? Message-ID: <199912160007.RAA25886@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19991215010917.048dfae0@localhost> from "Brett Glass" at Dec 15, 99 01:12:54 am
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> >The glue needed to build an N-way > >machine will always be less expensive than N uniprocessor boxes. > > Not so. The special chip sets are usually priced at a premium. I think this is because they work, and allow things like more than 2 PCI bus masters at a time, compared to many chipsets, whose arbitration logic fails over 2 PCI masters. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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