Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 Oct 1998 13:51:24 +0100 | From | Carlos Morgado <> | Subject | Re: 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 ?
- -- Carlos Morgado - l39801@alfa.ist.utl.pt - http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~c39801 PGP Key fingerprint = 43 BF 53 98 EB 32 F5 17 9E EB 77 1F 57 8C C6 83 If NT's the answer, you dont understand the problem.
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