Re: LUCI via IRC?

[John Corey <norm@comanche.dyn.ml.org>]

Cloudmaster wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> > John Corey said:
> > > Kara Pritchard wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > Remember LUCI.org is just a dual p-100 with a 6.4GB hd and
> > > > 128MB mem.  We are wanting to upgrade to dual k6/233 and another HD.
> > >
> > > Do K6's work on dual-processor motherboards?  I read somewhere that they
> > > could, but most motherboard manufacturers don't implement whatever
> > > AMD/Cyrix CPUS need, they only implement the Intel Pentium stuff.  If
> > > there are motherboards that can do it, please tell.
> >
> > I'd been meaning to correct Kara on that...  I've been wanting to
> > upgrade to dual Pentium 233MMX.  You can do SMP with AMD (and Cyrix,
> > for that matter), but AFAIK nobody makes a motherboard that will do
> > OpenPIC (the SMP spec that both use).
> 
> K7 (isn't that AMD's next chip?) is supposed to be capable of SMP with
> exisiting MB's. That'll be neat.
> 

Nah.  K7 will use a whole new motherboard (Alpha based).  Since they
have to do that, I'd say there's definately a good chance it'll support
SMP.  But for that, we'll have to wait a whole nother 6 months (or
more).

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