On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 23:57:10 -0700, David Mosberger <davidm@linux.hpl.hp.com> said: David> I wasn't suggesting that x86 is limited to 8-way, I was David> wondering how many > 8-way x86 Linux machines are actually David> out there. I wasn't even being facetious---just curious. On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 12:07:03AM -0700, David Mosberger wrote: > Incidentally, the first "big" SMP machine I had access to was some > sort of Sequent (S81/10?), with ~12 80386 CPUs (yes, that was a long > time ago... ;-). Aha, I've been on S-81's myself. Those definitely predated APIC's. I think they used the SLIC or whatever the precursor to the CSLIC was for an interrupt controller, and I'm sure there's a Sequent historian around somewhere to correct me if my memory's (which wouldn't have been of kernel hacking back then) failed me. =) -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Thu Sep 25 03:13:29 2003
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