[ILUG] quake3 & SMP ?

Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin) breatpro at exchange.ie.ml.com
Fri Mar 16 13:40:04 GMT 2001


Which begs the question ...
Is there such a thing as Assymetric Multi Processing,  using multiple
*different* processors on a box ...
ISTR a thread about AMD using the Alpha Slot / MoBo architecture a while
back, which lead ppl to think that an Athlon for i386 compat, and an Alpha
for number-crunching would be a nice mix ...
Me  - I'm only thinking of a Celery x and a Celery y on the same board ...
(Or maybe even a pair of disparate Pentia[0] / PIIs)

P

[0] Latin: 1 Pentium, 2 Pentia ... 

> -----Original Message-----
> 
>  Symmetric multi processing. Basically, using two or more identical
> processors. 





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