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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
