From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bob Drzyzgula Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 23:23:03 +0000 Subject: Re: Ultra AXmp Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org Well, I guess that answers the question of why Intel doesn't cause quad-processor x86 servers to cost $20K... they just hadn't gotten around to it yet. :-) BTW, does anyone happen to know how a Quad-processor Ultra AXmp system is likely to do under UltraPenguin? >From what I've seen it should be possible to build such a thing for about $20K. I've seen some discussion of this board on some Linux mailing lists, but Linux-specific issues related to this board weren't discussed... :-\ --Bob On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 02:07:25PM -0400, Douglas Eadline wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Mike wrote: > > > Robert G. Brown wrote: > > > > > The current 440BX systems have a 100 MHz memory bus (50% faster than > > > > That was so until just over a week ago. The Xeon version of the Pentium > > > > 400 MHz - 2 MB cache $4489 !!!!!!!!!!! > 400 MHz - 1 MB cache $2836 > 400 MHz - 512K cache $1124 -- ============================== Bob Drzyzgula It's not a problem bob@drzyzgula.org until something bad happens ==============================