Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 16:35:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com> Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-SMP and Pentium Pro (was -> Re: QuadPro Motherboard) Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.960926163426.10683F-100000@skipper.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <324a06bf0.2d93@databus.databus.com>
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On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Barney Wolff wrote: > > Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 21:22:56 -0400 (EDT) > > From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> > > > > Erich, the cost of that damn dual PPro board is so high (mostly the cost > > the the 2 Ppro's) that I have to take it seriously. That's a major > > portion of the reason that I've been foot dragging on doing it, because > > I'm worried about getting a $2k motherboard/doorstop. > > Well, it's not THAT bad. I can report one experimental point: I have > installed and run 2.1.5-release (non-smp) on a Supermicro P6DNE with > 2 cpus installed. So at most you're out the price of 1 P6, which can > always be used in a second machine. It is that bad if the goal is to run smp, and it fails because of something uncorrectable. Unless you happen to have a seond machine around that happens to have a space slot for a PPro (unlikely). > > Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com> > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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