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From: desimonp@tiac.net (Peter DeSimone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Dual Pentium MotherBoard.
Date: 24 Jan 1996 05:52:26 GMT
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Two things I have heard and gotten information on:

One, you need the Neptune chipset to have Dual Processors, Triton won't
do it.

Second, Windows NT, has a problem with Dual+ boards, someone did a test
and found that WinNT could only see 3 out of 4 processors on a 4 
processor board.  

Peter Desimone