Author: Bo Persson
Date: 09:56:36 02/10/00
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On February 09, 2000 at 22:58:37, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >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... Not really... When you move the cache onto the chip, you also need cache sync support on-chip. That wasn't a problem with the 286 of course! >-Tom Bo Persson bop@malmo.mail.telia.com
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