10 May
2005
10 May
'05
2:58 p.m.
On Tue, 10 May 2005 12:41:12 -0400 (EDT)
der Mouse <mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca> wrote:
Hm, that might be an interesting question. What
machines are there
built around x86 CPUs but which are definitely not peecees?
- Sequent build early
SMP and a bit later big NUMA machines based on
80[3456]86 CPUs. The early machines run some BSD UNIX, IIRC 4.2BSD,
later replaced by some SysV flavor. Finaly they supported WinNT...
- Siemens MX300. The first models had some NatSemi 32k CPU, the later
80486. Used Multibus, designed to run Sinix, the Siemes interpretation
of Unix.
- Cray XT3. Current machine, based on AMD Opteron, "scale steadily from
200 to 30,000 processors". =:-()
- SGI Visual Workstation 320 and 540, dual / quad Intel P II / P III,
doomed to run WinNT but finaly there came some Linux support.
- Didn't DG build some Intel based machines to replace the M88k based
AViiON?
--
tsch??,
Jochen
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