Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 20:34:38 11/16/98
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A processor that's Microsoft Windows compatible is basically going to have shared memory multiprocessing. -Tom On November 16, 1998 at 19:45:31, Terry Presgrove wrote: >I just read that AMD's new K-7 chip will support multi-processing >but I'm not sure it will be shared memory? Here is the quote from >AMD's home page. "About the AMD-K7(TM) Processor >The AMD-K7 processor with 3DNow!(TM) technology is a Microsoft® Windows® >compatible, seventh-generation design featuring a deeply pipelined, nine-issue >superscalar microarchitecture optimized for high clock frequency; a superscalar >pipelined floating point unit; 128KB of on-chip level one (L1) cache; a >programmable high-performance backside L2 cache interface; and a 200 MHz Alpha >EV6 compatible system bus interface with support for scalable multiprocessing. >The AMD-K7 processor is slated for introduction in the first half of 1999 and is >planned to operate at clock frequencies greater than 500 MHz." >I guess the key phrase is "scalable multiprocessing" anyone have a clue >as to what this means? I am particularly interested in its impact on chess >programs?
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