From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 10 14:22:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ipsnetwork.net (mail.ipsnetwork.net [209.202.83.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F077E37B401 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 14:22:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nathan@vidican.com) Received: from 78lb019 (gw6.ipsnetwork.net [209.202.83.120]) by mail.ipsnetwork.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f6ALUIT00386; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 17:30:18 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from nathan@vidican.com) Message-ID: <000601c10985$930938c0$6700000a@78lb019> From: "Nathan Vidican" To: "Wilko Bulte" Cc: References: <3B4B21B3.26B76804@mindspring.com> <200107101642.f6AGgCx34740@fac13.ds.psu.edu> <20010710142513.A15929@torb.pix.net> <20010710213402.D1389@freebie.xs4all.nl> Subject: Re: Athlon MP / AMD 760MP Chipset (Athlon SMP question) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 17:16:22 -0400 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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" To: "Josh M Osborne" Cc: ; ; ; ; 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