[rescue] pursuing a VAX

[Joshua Snyder]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 02:59:33AM -0500, Joshua Snyder wrote:
>
> > Sort of, yes you can get Quad P4 Xeons, but the Cpus them self only
> > support 2-way Smp.  Anything above that and you have to use chipsets to
> > glue the Cpu's together... hardly what I would call feature of the Cpu.
> > Reminds me of a quad 486 I once saw, afaik the 486 didn't support smp at
> > all. But the PIII Xeons could do 4-way Smp(just like the Ppro).
>
> Are you sure there 486 didn't support SMP?  I'm not sure that it did but
> I do remeber seeing a dual procesor pgrade that you just dropped into
> the socket of a single cpu 486 machine, which makes me wonder if maybe
> it at least supported 2way SMP.
>
> Byte used to routinely mention a 8way 486 they had.
>
> --
> Joshua D. Boyd

I am pretty sure, I remember the dual proc upgrade you are talking about,
I think it just acted as a glue between the two cpu's but I could be
wrong.  I never been able to take a good look at any smp 486 so I could be
wrong...

				josh



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