Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 19:58:37 02/09/00
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On February 09, 2000 at 19:38:57, Andrew Dados wrote: >On February 09, 2000 at 19:35:15, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>On February 09, 2000 at 19:30:40, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>Will the new Athlon chips support SMP? >>> >>>Will anyone be manufacturing 200MHz motherboards for SMP for these machines? >> >>I'm not certain, but I remember reading that the Athlon already has major >>support for SMP. >> >>This is no surprise, considering the two main Athlon guys are from HP and DEC. >>(Both companies are big into SMP.) >> >>The chipset is the only thing that doesn't support SMP. >> >>-Tom > >Wasn't it same case with 286 already some 10 years ago? I don't see much >difference... :) I don't know about the 286... but you can use any processor in a SMP machine, if you have the right chipset. It's just a question of how easy it is to do. I think it would be pretty easy to make an SMP Athlon chipset, it just hasn't been done yet... -Tom
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