[rescue] quad 486

[Brian]

I would be hesitant to use smp on a box with procs whose L2 cache is not on
chip..

    Brian

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From: "Joshua D. Boyd" <jdboyd at celestrion.net>
To: "The Rescue List" <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 8:28 AM
Subject: Re: [rescue] quad 486


> On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 10:13:57PM -0500, Kevin wrote:
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> > All the talk as of late about dual or quad P6 boxes reminds
> > me of a question i had.  A buddy of mine swears that some quad
> > 486 boxes were produced in the early 90s.  Does anyone know of
> > such a beast or if this was even possible?
>
> I've never seen a quad 486.  However, Byte mentioned a 8 proc 486 (and
> provided screen shots of NT 3.1 on it, in the early days of NT), and
> Data General, amoung others, made machines that used large numbers of
> 486s.  I think, maybe, they used 32?  Other people would know about
> those sorts of machines better than I do.
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