From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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To: wbh@conducive.org, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Dum-Bass question
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 06:46:59 +0200
From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
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> Intel's 'HAL' idea of SMP in P3 days (or earlier - my first was an Asus with 
> twin Pentium 90 MHz) was somewhat *bent*. Warp on one CPU was 40% faster than 
> NT4 on two, and that held on P1 200 & PentiumPro 200 as well.

How much can you tell me about this early equipment?  I have such a
box and would dearly like to address its quirks as it is the only MP
device I own.  Even Linux (and NetBSD, but that's easier to forgive)
barfs on it, but SCO Unix used to cope with it.

++L