Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 12:53:00 11/11/02
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On November 11, 2002 at 13:03:19, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On November 10, 2002 at 19:39:45, Jeremiah Penery wrote: > >Look further. there is even evidence on paper here in computer >magazines where reporters write about the k7 getting 8 capable. Then you should be able to provide exact links, beyond one vague reference in a geek.com article. I read through at least the first 10 pages of Google links on "k7 8 processor capable" and "k7 smp", and I already reported my data. All you're giving me is a bunch of vague references you think you read somewhere. Give me hard evidence, or admit you're making stuff up (like usual). >This is a few years ago of course. Short before k7 got onto the >market. > >Of course they have experience now getting it to work dual, so >that should help them with future SMP releases. > >We will see. > >I doubt however the times quoted. Any form of SMP into hammer >will take years to get it to 8 cpu's. If it gets 8 cpu shared memory >anyway. Considering they've already had 4-processor Opteron machines running, 8-way should be pretty easy. It's planned for next year. >Even though their design, like that of the K7, allows that. > >I see it as a marketing promise simply, marketing people are great >in promising things. I do not understand why you forgot about these >K7 promises at all. > >It was *hot* news when it was first announced by K7 marketing people. I already said there was one company developing it, but they got swallowed up by a bigger company, and the project was probably scrapped. But I still never saw anything directly from AMD about 4/8 way K7s. >>On November 10, 2002 at 16:54:43, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> >>>On November 10, 2002 at 10:36:21, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >>> >>>I filled in at www.google.com next keywords: >>> >>>K7 8 processor capable >>> >>>First link i got there was this: >>> http://www.geek.com/procspec/amd/k7.htm >>> >>>If you search further you'll see so many articles from around 2000 where >>>a 8 processor K7 system was promised. Especially 'reviews'. They just >>>quoted of course what the AMD department promised. >> >>I read through several pages of links from that search, and found only one other >>MENTION of 4/8 way K7 machines. Supposedly a company called 'HotRail' was >>developing such chipsets, but they were bought out by Conexant in June 2000. >> >>There is nothing even remotely resembling a 'promise' from AMD about 4/8 way SMP >>systems that I could find. >> >>I also tried searching for K7 SMP, which didn't turn up anything useful (99% of >>the links are about the Linux kernel patches or such). >> >>I can imagine that Compaq's official killing of Alpha might have had something >>to do with 4/8 way k7 boards not being built, since K7 uses the same bus as >>Alpha EV6, and there was supposed to have been the prospect of sharing >>motherboard designs. But this is speculation.
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