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Re: dual processor



On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote:

> Ira Abramov <ira@ard.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> >  btw, it would have cost you about the same to do it with two Cyrix P200+
> >  CPUs, if I'm not mistaken, and then gain the power of dual processors,
> >  plus the amazing bus speed of 75!
> 
> Cyrix CPU's don't support SMP.

Or, to be more precise, Cyrix/IBM have OpenPIC for SMP which is not 
supported by ANY board. Intel uses APIC.

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