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    SubjectRe: Building Big Ass Linux Machine, what are the limits?

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    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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    If NT's the answer, you dont understand the problem.

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