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To: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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Subject: Re: 430TX ? 
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Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 20:24:42 -0700
From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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Fantastic!

Anyone on board with any of these motherboards ? Would love to get some
stats out of one of those systems!

	Tnks,
	Amancio

>From The Desk Of Narvi :
> 
> On Sat, 12 Apr 1997, Amancio Hasty wrote:
> 
> > Hmmm...
> > 
> > Does DEC have a motherboard for PC with 64bit slots?
> 
> No :-( But they do make SMP Pentium Pro servers (upto 4 CPU) with a
> 256 bit (4-way interleaved) memory bus and dual peered PCI buses
> (? - does it mean there are two PCI busses?). They can take either 166/200
> PPros with 512K caches and also have Mylex RAID on boad. 
> 
> See the ZX 6000 servers :-)
> 
> The ZX5000 Pentium boards can take upto 4 Pentiums + 1Mb cache per
> processor and have 128 bit 2-way interleaved memory.
> 
> And no - I don't have such a box. And this isn't an ad. Compaq, IBM and HP
> have similar boards. 
> 
> 	Sander
> 
> > 
> > 	Cheers,
> > 	Amancio
> > 
> > >From The Desk Of Narvi :
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Sorry, I snipped the CC: list quite a bit... - hope no one get offended
> [snip]
> > > 
> > > Well, there are at least for PowerPC - the Motorola Atlas(?)/ MTX
> > > motherboard has one 64bit slot and 2 32-bit slots. I guess all that is
> > > needed for a PC chipset having 64 bit PCI is a CPU-host controller,
> > > interfacing anything else (including ISA?) to it using Digitals 64/64 and
> > > 64/32 PCI bridges.
> > > 
> > > 	Sander
>