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From: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>
To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
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Subject: Re: Motherboard & ChipSet pointers? 
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Hi,

>If you're thinking about dual CPUs, I think that any of the Cyrix
>processors will be permanently out of the running.  See, they decided to
>go a different route with the interrupt handling, which is central to
>running multiple CPUs.  The hardware to make the Cyrix CPUs multiprocess
>isn't there.

I think *INTEL* decided for them by patenting the hell out of the
APIC technology.  I have strong misgivings about supporting this sort
of proprietary nonsense, but in this case I'm afraid Intel wins....

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