Dear All,
>
> The new iTanic (aka Itanium) processor...
>
TiTanic? Hmm, no wonder they get such bad press over this thing.
Kees Jan
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You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
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Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: Athlon MP / AMD 760MP Chipset (Athlon SMP question)
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:25:13PM -0400, Josh M Osbo
On 2001-07-10, Josh M Osborne scribbled:
# The current Intel's have a shared bus, and all memory traffic goes
# over it, and some cache coherency traffic as well.
The official names of Intel's bus include: GTL, GTL+, AGTL and AGTL+.
The new iTanic (aka Itanium) processor uses the AGTL+ protocol
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:25:13PM -0400, Josh M Osborne wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 12:42:12PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [...]
> > > Instead, AMD implemented the Intel APIC specification;
> > > I'm not sure if they did it by licensing the patent
> > > (Intel had a patent on the APIC
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 12:42:12PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
> > Instead, AMD implemented the Intel APIC specification;
> > I'm not sure if they did it by licensing the patent
> > (Intel had a patent on the APIC design), or if it's
> > just been long enough for it to come off patent
>
SMP works on athlons... while internally AMD uses the Alpha EV6 bus to
give each CPU a full 200MHz point-to-point bus between it and it's RAM, to
the OS, it just looks like any other intel based SMP machine. (It just
runs faster)
Ken
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Nathan Vidican wrote:
> I seem to rec
terry tumbled,
> but the motherboards are "jumbo sized", and take a strange
> power connector, so you can only get the power supply from
> one vendor (so far).
two, actually.
> Instead, AMD implemented the Intel APIC specification;
> I'm not sure if they did it by licensing the patent
> (Intel
Nathan Vidican wrote:
>
> I seem to recall a few discussions about the Dual Athlon
> buzz some while back which had stated that the Athlon would
> essentially require a completely different SMP spec than that
> currently utilized by the Intel procesors. Assuming that this
> was true, one woul
"Nathan Vidican" wrote:
> I seem to recall a few discussions about the Dual Athlon buzz some
> while back which had stated that the Athlon would essentially require a
> completely different SMP spec than that currently utilized by the Intel
> procesors. Assuming that this was true, one woul
On 2001-07-09, Nathan Vidican scribbled:
# Just for the record, is it or is it not possible to run SMP with
# the new Athlon MP Processors; or has no-one even tried yet? Currently
# the only O/S I know of which is promoting the usage of such systems is
# Novell Netware, and I am just curious
I seem to recall a few discussions about the Dual Athlon buzz some
while back which had stated that the Athlon would essentially require a
completely different SMP spec than that currently utilized by the Intel
procesors. Assuming that this was true, one would assume that the O/S
too would
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