Re: GRR!! SMP=1 sucks

Joe Julian (jjulian@nwlink.com)
Thu, 9 Apr 1998 08:53:33 -0700 (PDT)


On Thu, 9 Apr 1998 kwr@kwr.hnv.com wrote:

> And lo, Manuel J. Galan saith unto me: "Economic
> considerations" today, at least in the PC world, are:
>1) SMP is hard to get right from a software perspective,
>2) '95 doesn't use SMP and NT might not use it all that well
>3) Intel would rather sell you one expensive processor than two
> cheap ones, and
>4) Only Intel can make SMP-capable chipsets for Intel's SMP
> protocol, and while other chipset makers make chipsets
> that can do SMP with AMD or Cyrix chips, no motherboard
> maker has made an SMP non-Intel-CPU board...

Gigabyte GA-586DX
http://www.giga-byte.com/GA586DX.html

I haven't tested it personally, but the spec sheet says it
will...

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