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- From: woodacre@mips.com (Michael Woodacre)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Multiprocessor Crimson?
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 18:05:14 GMT
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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- Sender: woodacre@krell.mti.sgi.com (Michael Woodacre)
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- References: <3304@contex.contex.com> <v4fbv18@zola.esd.sgi.com> <1jkgn3INNsmh@spim.mti.sgi.com> <1993Jan21.044828.17595@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <1993Jan21.104509.11830@cc.ic.ac.uk>
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- In article <1993Jan21.104509.11830@cc.ic.ac.uk>, vulture@imperial.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau) writes:
- |> In article <1993Jan21.044828.17595@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>, senseman@lucy.brainlab.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman) writes:
- |> [qouting R4400 announcement]
- |> .....
- |> - >The R4400 microprocessor is a pin-compatible upgrade to the MIPS R4000* and is
- |> - ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- |> - Hmmm...I wonder what would happen if I swapped my Indigo's R4000 with a R4400
- |> - (besides void my warranty :) Wonder how soon Radio Shack will start stocking
- |> - R4400's in those cute little containers with a cardboard back and a clear
- |> - plastic front?
- |>
- |> Unless you damaged the motherboard in the process of hedgehog extraction,
- |> it should work very well, chugging along at 50 MHz with beautifully clean
- |> signal waveforms. Connect an oscilloscope and enjoy while you compute.
- |>
- |> If you however change the timing crystals as well, you will probably see the
- |> odd bit of blue smoke from some parts of the random logic on the motherboard.
- |> I would be very surprised if you could actually get that to work for more than
- |> a few hours - if at all.
- |>
- |> Thomas
- |>
- |> --
- |> *** This is the operative statement, all previous statements are inoperative.
- |> * email: cmaae47 @ ic.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau) (uk.ac.ic on Janet)
- |> * voice: +44 71 589 5111 x4937 or 4934 (day), or +44 71 823 9497 (fax)
- |> * snail: Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
- |> * The Center for Computing Services, Kensington SW7 2BX, Great Britain
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- Great care was taken in the design of the r4000/r4400 to allow for simple
- system upgrades. The speed of the external memory interface is programmable
- to allow it to run slower than the internals of the chip - this means it is
- possible to use a 75MHz R4400 in a system designed for a 50MHz R4000 simply
- by changing the serial boot rom that sets up the external interface speed and
- by changing the crystal to 75MHz. This gets you performance improvement from
- the chip running at a higher speed, from the larger caches and the uncached
- write buffer on the R4400.
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- Of course - don't try this at home! ;-)
-
- Cheers,
- Mike
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