Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 19:15:07 -0800 (PST) From: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net> To: Dayton Clark <dayton@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu> Cc: smp@csn.net, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8CPUs <was Re: -current, goliath, smp -- problems> Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971209191422.236B-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <199712092225.RAA18006@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu>
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On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Dayton Clark wrote: > > IBM has advertised an 8 cpu server for several years. I was never able to > get anyone to give me a quote though. There is a French organization (or > company) that implemented a multi-pentium connection scheme. I think it > is called the CBUS. As I remember, it's an interesting system, but totally > incompatible with the Intel MP stuff. > > dayton <snip> > Alex> <off topic> Speaking of more CPUs, did anyone catch the release of > Alex> HP's newest SMP server? An 8 CPU (I'm assuming PPro) *drool*. > Alex> I'm assuming it comes with gobs of ram and disk space, and it > Alex> amusingly enough looked like an overgrown dot-matrix printer with > Alex> no paper. I didn't realize there were production machines with > Alex> more than 4 Intel CPUs *drool*. This advertised system was compatable with some form of Intel SMP as it ran *gag* NT. Imagine if FreeBSD could run on that sucker. - alex
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