Re: ASUS Dual Pentium w/Neptune chipset?

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From: Bruce MacDonald
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 07:25

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In article <kashi.794765618@grimm>, kashi@uiuc.edu (Asaf Kashi) says:

>I plan on running NT with a dual P90 motherboard.  Are there any out
>there with two independent L2 caches????  or a mb with the option to
>put an L2 cache in?? (ie: it's there but not populated and the jumper
>isn't set)
>
>Thanks,
>Asaf
>--
>Asaf Kashi                                                kashi@uiuc.edu
>Senior System Administrator - Cognitive Science Group, Beckman Institute
>http://www.cogsci.uiuc.edu/~kashi               *Finger me for PGP key!*

As I understand it, the Pentium has built in functionality to support
dual-processor configurations, but only using a shared L2 cache.  Separate
caches is a lot more complicated.  I know ALR advertises a machine with
4 CPUs -- maybe they have a true SMP machine with only two.  It would be
quite a bit more expensive that the dual-cpu Asus board I'm sure.

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Bruce MacDonald                                Bruce_MacDonald@mindlink.bc.ca
Database Consultant
Cornerstone Computer Associates Inc.
Chairperson, Vancouver Oracle Users Group

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