[rescue] quad 486

[Steve Hatle]

On 2/20/03 9:13 PM, "Kevin" <kevin at mpcf.com> wrote:

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> All the talk as of late about dual or quad P6 boxes reminds
> me of a question i had.  A buddy of mine swears that some quad
> 486 boxes were produced in the early 90s.  Does anyone know of
> such a beast or if this was even possible?
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In the early 90's we had an AT&T StarserverE that was dual-486, and could
have gone quad with the addition of another 2 proc board.

It ran AT&T SysV. There was a "multi-processor enabler" package that you had
to load (kernel module or somesuch?) else the OS would see it as a single
CPU box. 

After it went out of service, we put NT on it for fun, and it saw the 2
procs, but a bunch of other stuff didn't work since it was "Deathstar-brand"
proprietary.

Steve