Re: GRR!! SMP=1 sucks

Daniel Egger (Daniel.Egger@t-online.de)
Thu, 9 Apr 1998 16:39:15 +0000


On Thu, 09 Apr 1998, kwr@kwr.hnv.com wrote:

>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

- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu