[SunRescue] Multiprocessor intel boards (hate to interrupt the flamewar)

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I've never seen a quad proc system take anything standard pretty
much.  The IO cards and memory are sometimes standard.  If your quad ppro
box is even slightly likley to boot I'd recommend playing with that, as
most VRMs run ~20$ for ppros (When you can find them).
	Nick

On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Robert Novak wrote:

> I hate to interrupt the little flamewar about Linux with a question that
> might actually be worth the bandwidth... okay, I actually like to, but it
> sounds more deferential to the people wasting my diskspace with Irix and
> Linux holy wars to say it the former way...
> 
> Someone wrote:
> 
> > > Linux is known not to scale well on SMP systems - this might come as a
> > > suprise to you, but not many Linux developers have 32way machines at their
> > > disposal to test with! .. 2.4 is better, and improvements will continue to
> > > be made. Why does that upset you so much?
> 
> Does anyone have real life experience or recommended resources for getting
> Intel architecture motherboards that take more than two processors? I have
> a Compaq quad pentium pro system that requires a handful of VRM-type
> modules (and it's not worth $200+ to find out if it works), and a quad
> 486 box with a dead power supply.
> 
> I'd rather find something more conventional with 4 processors... can be
> Socket 5, Socket 7, Socket 8, Slot 1, PGA370... I suspect anything >2 cpu
> will require special power supplies, but a guy can hope, right?
> 
> --Rob (who chuckled when he saw the SunBlade 100 had a PGA370 socketed
> processor along with the pretty PC colored ports )
> 
> Robert Novak, Indyramp Consulting * rnovak at indyramp.com * indyramp.com/~rnovak
>         "And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe
>            Maybe this year will be better than the last...." -- counting crows
> 
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