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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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