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List:       linux-smp
Subject:    Re: Building a new SMP system.
From:       Jon Lewis <jlewis () inorganic5 ! fdt ! net>
Date:       1998-06-26 23:09:06
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On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Phil Macias wrote:

> Tyan Tomcat IVD, 2x 200MHz (MMX), 128MB (60ns, EDO DRAM, 2 64 MB
> chips), AHA-2940 for SCSI disks, aha1522 for tape, cdrom, zip drive,
> 3C590 (Vortex), #9FX (2MB). Works well. 2.1.106 has bees solid for
> about a week. Not as fast as the (single) PPro I'm testing a mail
> system on, but handles all I ask it to do without slowing or
> faultering. It scales better than the PPro system under increasing
> load.
> 
> Total price of board, RAM, and processors - $700. The baby AT form

For just a little more money though, I think you could have built a dual
PII-266 with 128mb.  The PII's should do much better SMP than P200's due
to non-shared L2 cache.

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