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To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>,
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Multiprocessor Athlon
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> -----------------------------
> From:  Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
> 
> On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 03:42:04PM -0600, Hal Lynch wrote:
> > What multiprocessor Athlon mother boards are you using?
> > 
> > How well do they work?
> > 
> > I need a lot of processing power, two 1+ gig Athlons would
> > be about right.
> > 
> > 500meg memory.
> > 
> > Two Ultra SCSI drives, 9 Gig and 18 gig should do.
> > 
> 
> Since no multiprocessor Athlon mother boards have been officially
> released yet I would be quite surprised if anybody here has one.
> I would be even more surprised if they could tell you how well they
> work.
> 

    Somebody posted to hackers a few weeks back that they had managed
to get their hands on a Tyan 760MP system and everything seemed to be
running just great.  Stock 5.0-current kernel seemed to pick it up no
problems.


    marc.


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