[rescue] Wanted: SparcStation 20 and/or Parts

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On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Andrew Reynolds
<randrewreynolds at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Michael-John Turner <mj at mjturner.net>
> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> My hand-me-down SS20 is running with an SM41 and an SM61, I'd have to
> fire it up to confirm hardware revisions. It's clunky, but it works. I
> seem to recall having to put the SM41 in the first MBUS slot.
>
>
Does it not then run them both as if there were SM41's?

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