From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 9 19:15:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA06793 for current-outgoing; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 19:15:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (spain-7.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.228.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA06751 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 19:15:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA00496; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 19:15:07 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 19:15:07 -0800 (PST) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: Dayton Clark cc: smp@csn.net, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8CPUs In-Reply-To: <199712092225.RAA18006@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 > Alex> 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