From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Apr 28 11:35:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA00270 for smp-outgoing; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 11:35:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [199.201.191.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA00265 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 11:35:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MindBender.serv.net by mx.serv.net (8.7.5/SERV Revision: 2.30) id LAA15819; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 11:35:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.serv.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA29188; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 11:34:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199704281834.LAA29188@MindBender.serv.net> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.serv.net: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: Narvi , smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quad Pro 150 motherboard? In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 28 Apr 97 20:07:20 +0200. <340.862250840@critter> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 11:33:56 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>There's nothing inherent in the design of NT that restricts it even to >>8-way. >Uhm, no. The limit is 16. This is because certain stuff is kept as Actually, the limit is 32, for NT Server 4.0 (some people are quoting NT 3.5 documentation...). But, that's just minor quibling. Since this isn't a FreeBSD issue, this thread should end... (And yes, I wasn't differentiating between NT Workstation and Server. Obviously Microsoft wants you to run Server for large SMP machines.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------