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From: millner@millner.bevc.blacksburg.va.us (Robert Millner)
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.
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Date: 26 Jan 1996 23:23:54 GMT
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In-reply-to: walton@oclc.org's message of 25 Jan 1996 17:24:34 -0500
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"SW" == Sean Walton <walton@oclc.org> writes:
SW> : >to hit the stable 1.4 release (due out soon) in some primal way..
SW> : >
SW> : **************************
SW> : BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT
SW> : **************************
SW> : It has ALREADY hit, and most bugs supposedly have been worked out.  It is
SW> : supposed to support up to 16 processors, and has finer locking.
SW> : Steve

SW> PLEASE before you answer these questions READ the documentation!  Up to
SW> 32 Pentiums are supported from 1.3.31 and beyond!

SW> BTW, Steve, while it's clear that _trying_ to help.  The noise-makers are
SW> quite annoying and UNNECESSARY.  If you're a kid, we forgive you.  If not
SW> grow up!

SW> -Sean Walton

From linux-1.3.57/Documentation/SMP.txt:
 "SMP support for Linux with up to 16 processors using the Intel MP
  specification."



It kind of bothers me when people jump down each others throaghts for
accidently giving wrong information.  Correct them, yes. Insult them,
no.  Even if you had been correct, it still bugs me because it is not
necessary.  Simply quoting a line of the docs would have sufficed and
shown that you really had known what you were talking about.

	Rob

-- 
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And when justice is gone, there's always force.
And when force is gone, there's always mom.  Hi mom!
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