Re: How many pentium-3 processors does SMP support?

Chris Wedgwood (cw@f00f.org)
Wed, 11 Jul 2001 02:36:36 +1200


On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 04:32:43PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

The largest Chipset I know about are the 8 Way ones.
(What is SE?).

A moronic attempt as using this funny qwerty layout thing. It should
read SW (ServerWorks).

They must be the Unisys OEM machines. They are based on some
crossbar-architecture called CMP that allows logical partioning,
etc..

Yup, turns out they are.

I have talked to Unisys engineers on last Cebit who said that the
NT (now W2k) port required a huge amount of work. Also I noticed
that UnixWare^H^H^H^H^HOpenUnix needed work to run on it.

Well, I guess NetBSD is a good candidate, it has a nice portable MM
system, linux might not be so bad either, but without knowledge of how
this works, I am just guessing and probably still talking shit.

--cw
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