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From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein)
Subject: Re: New 3.0-SNAP [was Re: infinite loop in sysinstall]
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Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 17:30:08 GMT
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Garance A Drosehn (gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu) wrote:
: le@put.com (Louis Epstein) wrote:
: > Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@FreeBSD.org) wrote:
: > : I doubt that we'll be driving anyone out of business, but I
: > : certainly hope to see FreeBSD running on truly aggressive
: > : SMP implementations, yes.
: > 
: > Well,by year end it should be possible to show off a 3.0 release
: > on a four-Pentium II-300MHz system,and demonstrate how it benchmarks
: > the pants off a Pentium-75 running WinNT and a Pentium-90 running
: > Linux, and start some cool flamewars...
: 
: I don't follow the world of intel all that much, but my understanding
: was that the Pentium-II chip is not geared up for four-processor
: systems.  The Pentium Pro can be used in four-processor systems,
: but the Pentium-II stops at dual-processors.
: 
: (I could very well be wrong on that, I just read it on some web
: page articles about the Pentium-II release).

It would certainly be a strange backward step for Intel's extending the
top of their line...would it be from a drawback in their cartridge design,
and how would they get around it?Are they going to let AMD and Cyrix
take the 4-8 processor SMP market while they redesign?