[rescue] Wanted: SparcStation 20 and/or Parts

Michael-John Turner mj at mjturner.net
Thu Nov 24 08:35:30 CST 2011


On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 01:59:24PM -0500, J. Alexander Jacocks wrote:
> Indeed I know that the SS20 can't use the second meg of cache.
> However, unless I find 2 more identical SM81s, I need a second SM81-2
> to be able to run 2 processors, as the SS20 requires identical CPUs to
> be installed for SMP.

I'm not sure that's strictly true - officially, yes, but AFAIK it's
possible to mix modules. I think the key factor is that all CPUs must
either have cache or be cacheless. 

-mj
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