Re: 64GB RAM Curiousity Project

Jim Nance (jnance@nortelnetworks.com)
Tue, 7 Dec 1999 10:17:34 -0500


On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 03:03:38PM +0000, Malcolm Beattie wrote:

> Dell, for example, will sell you a PowerEdge 8450 with 8 Xeon CPUs
> (Intel's Profusion chipset) and 16GB RAM. Presumably Penguin
> Computing's 8-way is similar in terms of maximum memory. They also say
> that NT doesn't support it yet and their sales guy was happy to hear
> that Linux 2.3 already *does*.

Now thats interesting. I wonder what OS they were planning for when they
designed the machine.

Jim

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