On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 01:56:40AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > larger numbers of CPUs. For example, Sequent have for some time made
> > a living from selling large SMP x86 systems, and I've used Sequent 386
> > and 486 arrays despite the fact that those CPUs have no built-in SMP
> > support at all.
>
> All the timing evidence I have from playing with one a bit is that they
> are not really SMP in the normal sense
>
humm .. wouldn't building an SMP machine from non-SMP aware processors imply
a lot of memory management logic for atomic test and set and such ?
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