[rescue] This Just In: HP to buy Compaq

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 06:05:05PM -0400, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> Yes, other Intel chips will do the same, but the PPro is the yardstick of
> quality that other chips are measured by.  The PPRo was the first "quality"
> chip that intel produced - that made it possible for Intel x86 to compete in
> the server and graphic/engineering workstations arenas.  The PPro can go
> into MP systems too - I'm not positive, but I think PPros can be configured
> in up to 8-way with the right motherboard.

The PPro only understand 4 way SMP.  Higher numbers required strange
tricks like pretty much any other intel system to this day.  

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Joshua D. Boyd