Author: Mogens Larsen
Date: 18:21:26 11/14/00
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On November 14, 2000 at 19:31:45, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote: >>>You have said this before. Yet it directly contradicts what I see happening >>>at both Dell and Gateway. They are selling _many_ dual-processor machines. >>>Not to mention the dual-cpu motherboard market which is continually strapped >>>for parts due to demand. >> >>This may apply to the US, but not to Europe, or at least not to Spain. It is >>true that here I see more and more ads about duals and quads from HP, IBM and >>Siemens, but directed exclusively to enterprises. Nobody I know has a dual, and >>the shop that has been building mine, the biggest shop in the province, had no >>experience at all about them, which by the way doesn't make me feel very >>confident. >> >>I have no idea about what is the future in computers and I wonder if anybody has >>it. In my case it was a rather simple decision. If I wanted to play comp-comp I >>had 2 options: 2 fast single machines or a fast dual for the same money. The >>dual will do the same for comp-comp, but it will be faster for other things, >>so... >> >>And now for what I always wanted to know and I never dared to ask: what does SMP >>stand for? >> >>Enrique > >Symmetric Multi-Processing ( I think ) I think I'll try Synchronized Multi-Processing. Mogens.
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