[rescue] Re: Wanted - Dual (or quad) PPro

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Robert F. Schaefer wrote:

> > I personally run a Unisys Aquanta HS/6 (basically an OEM'd ALR
> > Revolution
> 6x6) with six PII Overdrive CPUs and it hasn't missed a beat in the last
> two years. I consider it a 6-way mini-Xeon system. In terms of
> performance, the OD CPUs are a big step up from the 200MHz/512K chips I
> used to run.
>
> How big a step up?  I thought I heard that the OD chips were only a
> marginal improvement.  If they're that good, I might look for a pair to
> stick in my peasea.  Dunno if I want to replace the 1024K chips in my
> IBM yet.

I have an IBM 704 (Quad PPro) with four PowerLeap (www.powerleap.com)
interposers and four 400MHz 512kB flipchip Pentium-III's.  It's stupid
fast.

Peace...  Sridhar