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From: Ken Tsuda <tsuda@mls.hac.com>
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: 25 Jan 1996 06:07:13 GMT
Organization: Hughes Aircraft Co.
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desimonp@tiac.net (Peter DeSimone) wrote:
>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
>








I'd like to get that information regarding NT's problem with dual
Pentiums.

Thanks,
KST