Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: costs of IPC

[Steve Harris]

On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:22:41PM +0200, J�rn Nettingsmeier wrote:
> as to cache size, i think 2 meg is out of the question for consumer
> hardware. the xeons are painfully expensive compared to 256k
> coppermines, and why should that ever change ? (btw, do the xeons
> run the 2megs at full clock speed ?)

I think so yes. My old PIII (slot 1) had 512k cache though, and that
was just a consumer one.

> does windows xp even support 2-way smp ? not that i care, but this
> fact is crucial to the market prices of such hardware.

I expect so, its NT code, which has been smp capable for a while.

I was thinking fairly long term BTW, 5-10 years. Which I suppose is pretty
irrelevant for the current discussion.

- Steve