Re: Dual Processor boards

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.free-online.co.uk>]

> Craig,
> 
> You're going to hate this but:
> 
> AMD uses OpenAPIC (sp?) and Intel uses some proprietory system that
> they won't license to anyone. Regretably no motherboards (and no
> OS's) are produced which support this [OpenAPIC]. To get SMP
> you _need_ Intel processors. As far as SS7 boards go the HX allows
> 4 processors as well as the Abit BP6 which allows 2 Celerys to SMP.
> The HX is out of production but you may be able to get one second hand.
> The first processor which will have a mobo that supports OpenAPIC will
> be the Athlon (AMD will produce the chipset themselves) and a
> special ver. of NT will be released to support it. The specs will be
> released
> to commercial Unices (and Linux, BSD et al will have a go I'm sure).
>  Just wait until Q4 of this year and more will be known.
> 
> regards
> 
> Chris
> 

Oh pants. Still, I could possibly get hold of an oldish SiS board w/
100MHz bus and upgrade the DX2?

Looks like a long wait for an Athlon to me...

Cheers anyway.

Craig

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