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Subject: Re: Dual Athlon boards sighted.

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:08:45 05/30/01

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On May 30, 2001 at 17:17:10, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On May 30, 2001 at 13:48:13, Dan Andersson wrote:
>
>>Athlon/Duron processors are SMP capable, they are not 'supported'. We will se
>>how that plays out.
>
>As far as i know all released athlons so far are NOT smp capable.
>
>Only palomino which would get released perhaps in june or later
>is SMP capable. Let's hope it doesn't get a Xeon price of $4000 each.


The processors themselves don't necessarily have to have SMP capability.

Our first Sequent used the NS32032 that had no test and set or any kind of
atomic instruction at all.  It made a nice SMP machine however with some
clever engineering.



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