Thank for all the help!
I'm sold on the two Pentium II 350 processors.
Now I need to get an ATX case, motherboard,
decide whether to recirculate 128MB of SIMM (a bad idea
for sure, DIMMS are the way to go obviously).
I'm partial to Tyan.
I'm thinking of a desktop system, strange as that seems.
Something small, light, with .25 G ram and a 10,000 RPM disk
(maybe replaceable so my wife can play games on msdos, I don't
really like dual boot systems).
Larry
Lawrence D. Lopez wrote:
>
> I notice that one Pentium II 450 is $600.
> But two Pentium II 350 processors are $249 x 2 or $498.
>
> Obviously single threaded code would run faster
> on the 450 mHz processor.
>
> I was wondering if it was worth the trouble going to
> SMP.
>
> The application is program development.
>
> I, personally, have found 2 processor systems handy
> when large amounts of kernel debugging output are placed
> on a X windows screen. This was in a Sun environment
> though.
>
> Larry
