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To: "Chris Day" <the_reman@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: ftp.cdrom.com 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 17:54:05 -0800
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>>> I think the 450MHz versions of PII will be out this summer, but it's 
>>> mostly the 100MHz bus that I'm interested in! :-)
>
>Although one of the advantages the PPro does have over the PII's is that 
>you can have 4 PPro's and you can only have 2 PII's now if you've got 
>you're ftp site distributed across some machines then maybe its not so 
>much of a concern, but at the moment PPro's are the chip of choice for 
>high-end servers, plus I believe the PPro can cache all 4Gb of memory 
>while PII can only do 512Mb.
>
>So dream machine would be - 4 PPro 200's (overclocked to 233 :) all with 
>1Mb of L2 cache and > 512Mb RAM.

   The cachability restriction is one of the things that the new Slot II
processors solve. I don't know how scalable they are with SMP, however,
although this isn't an issue for ftp.cdrom.com where I have no near-term
plans to go beyond a single processor.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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