Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 17:16:22 -0400 From: "Nathan Vidican" <nathan@vidican.com> To: "Wilko Bulte" <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Athlon MP / AMD 760MP Chipset (Athlon SMP question) Message-ID: <000601c10985$930938c0$6700000a@78lb019> References: <3B4B21B3.26B76804@mindspring.com> <200107101642.f6AGgCx34740@fac13.ds.psu.edu> <20010710142513.A15929@torb.pix.net> <20010710213402.D1389@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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Eclipse manufacturs 32-way xeon boxes too. http://www.eclipse.com/, recently bought out by Data General, (http://www.dg.com/, used to be the manufacturers of the Aviion/Eclipse mainframe machines... and their proprietory O/S 'unicos'. They still sell/manufacture the numa based 32-way xeon boxes, though they've stopped supporting the legacy mainframes. Nathan Vidican Nathan@Vidican.com http://Nathan.Vidican.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wilko Bulte" <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: "Josh M Osborne" <stripes@iamsofired.com> Cc: <dochawk@psu.edu>; <tlambert2@mindspring.com>; <nathan@vidican.com>; <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 3:34 PM Subject: Re: Athlon MP / AMD 760MP Chipset (Athlon SMP question) > On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:25:13PM -0400, Josh M Osborne wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 12:42:12PM -0400, dochawk@psu.edu wrote: > > [...] > > > > Instead, AMD implemented the Intel APIC specification; > > > > I'm not sure if they did it by licensing the patent > > > > (Intel had a patent on the APIC design), or if it's > > > > just been long enough for it to come off patent > > > > > > The Athlon uses the Alpha's ev6 spec, not the intel spec. > > > That may explain why you can buy Alpha systems with 40+ CPUs, and > > 32 max, on Wildfire. > > > Intel XENON boxes with no more then eight (or is it four?). It is > > Eight, eg on a Compaq Proliant 8000. Or 32 for the Unisys (IIRC) CMP > machines. > > -- > | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@FreeBSD.org > |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte "Youth is not a time in life, it is a state of mind" > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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