From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 30 7:32:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from kibby.knf.beldin.net (kibby.knf.beldin.net [203.38.198.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BFA4151A4 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 07:32:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kibbet@kibby.knf.beldin.net) Received: (from kibbet@localhost) by kibby.knf.beldin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA15823; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 02:02:32 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from kibbet) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 02:02:31 +1030 (CST) From: kibbet To: Mike Andrews Subject: Re: PAIN Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 30-Jan-00 Mike Andrews wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Alex Zepeda wrote: > >> On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, kibbet wrote: >> >> > /me looks at the bunch of 386 mobo's... lets not go there.. :) >> >> /me looks at the stack of 386sx chips he has and wonders why no-one did 8 >> way SMP with these! > > uky.edu once had a Sequent Symmetry with twenty-six 386DX's in it -- 20 > mhz if I remember right. Interesting box, to say the least... > Certainly sounds interesting. Back a couple of years a friend (electronics guru) and I wanted to do some PP'ing for a little astronomy project. It never eventuated but we were thinking of a tying the 6 odd 486's together directly via a pci to pci circuit. We wanted SPEED though so we tossed around the idea of direct pc/pc communication via SIMM sockets. Idea being, chunk of ram for local processing, starting on a SIMM boundary a circuit (running at cpu bus speed) to communicate with the other pc's. All highly unlikely, but logic didn't enter into it back then :) Cheers... Kent Ibbetson kibbet@knfpub.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message