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- cjolley@iac.net (Carl Jolley) writes:
-
- > Chris \"Big-Kahuna\" Rampson (crampson@ford.com) wrote:
-
- > The facts indicate otherwise. Intel makes a massively parallel processing
- > machine that consists of _many_ P6 cpu's. If I recall correctly the
- > design acomodates up to 1024 separate processors.
-
- If I remember rightly, they also did something similar with the 486,
- and the pentumiu when they came out. Most likely it is quite expensive
- (being intel parts) and probably uses some kind of design feature that
- they've managed to get patented to restrict its use to licencees.
-
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- 'Coming from you, Ambassador, that's a real compliment.'
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