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Date:      Thu, 16 Dec 1999 00:07:11 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass)
Cc:        dscheidt@enteract.com, ragnar@sysabend.org, tlambert@primenet.com, noslenj@swbell.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dual 400 -> dual 600 worth it?
Message-ID:  <199912160007.RAA25886@usr09.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19991215010917.048dfae0@localhost> from "Brett Glass" at Dec 15, 99 01:12:54 am

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> >The glue needed to build an N-way
> >machine will always be less expensive than N uniprocessor boxes.  
> 
> Not so. The special chip sets are usually priced at a premium.

I think this is because they work, and allow things like more
than 2 PCI bus masters at a time, compared to many chipsets,
whose arbitration logic fails over 2 PCI masters.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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