>1) SMP is hard to get right from a software perspective,
That depends on serveral things....
>2) '95 doesn't use SMP and NT might not use it all that well
NT is SMPable
>3) Intel would rather sell you one expensive processor than two
> cheap ones, and
Who cares?
>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...
It's really a pity.... I'm just waiting for a dual/quad SuperSocket7 Board
to heat it with 2/4 AMD K6II-266....
No I won't consider buying a dual Pentium-II or even a normal
Pentium-II machine....
--Servus, Daniel
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