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Date:      Mon, 4 Dec 2000 18:30:40 -0600
From:      "Jim King" <jim@jimking.net>
To:        "Tom" <tom@uniserve.com>, "Mike Smith" <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        "Noor Dawod" <noor@comrax.com>, "FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Xeon 
Message-ID:  <002501c05e52$9ec82560$04e48486@marble>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10012041512240.13847-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>

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>   What are OS are people running on large x86 SMP systems?  I seem to
> recall that NT 4.0 had a 4 CPU limit.  Windows 2000 AS can apparently
> handle up to 8, but the release of 2000 is relatively new.

NT 4.0 Server off the shelf can only do 4 (or is it 2?), but it's can be
customized by the hardware manufacturer for more CPU's.  Somebody (NEC?) had
a 10-way Pentium Pro box a few years ago that ran NT 4.0.

Windows 2000 Datacenter Server (is it out yet?) will do 32.

Jim




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