[rescue] pursuing a VAX

[James]

How does a thread on VAXen break down into a discussion of Intel 
architecture? It's insulting to non-Intel hardware and VAXen in particular 
(no anthropomorphizing here, not me : )

At 02:59 AM 12/11/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 vance at neurotica.com wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Joshua Snyder wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 02:06:33AM -0500, Joshua Snyder wrote:
> > > >
><snip>
> > > >
> > > > But where do the P4 Xeons fit into all of this?  That's the main P4 
> I use.
> > >
> > > As far as I know the only difference between the Xeon's and the normal P4
> > > was dual processor support and SMT(hyper-threading).  But now that the
> > > normal P4(3.06Ghz and above) supports SMT the only real difference is 
> dual
> > > processor support.
> >
> > Actually the Xeon supports much bigger configurations than two-way.  I've
> > seen eight-way operating, but I'm sure they get even bigger than that.
> >
> > Peace...  Sridhar
>
>Sort of, yes you can get Quad P4 Xeons, but the Cpus them self only
>support 2-way Smp.  Anything above that and you have to use chipsets to
>glue the Cpu's together... hardly what I would call feature of the Cpu.
>Reminds me of a quad 486 I once saw, afaik the 486 didn't support smp at
>all. But the PIII Xeons could do 4-way Smp(just like the Ppro).
>
>                                 josh
>
>
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