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To: Tony Viola who wrote (50838)3/19/1998 11:49:00 PM
From: Gary Kao  Read Replies (2) of 186894
 
While the poor scalability of NT is well-known, I thought most flavors of UNIX already support SMP all the way up to 256 CPU's? Furthermore, I was under the impression that Merced in fact is designed from the ground-up to work with HP-Unix, SCO's Unix, and other such flavors? Thus, Merced may not in fact be so dependent on NT and MSFT? Comments on this?

Gary

>I think Paul said Merced will scale up to 256 processors. However, the scalability
of NT is well known to need a lot of improvement, so it will be one of the big bottlenecks in Merced based
systems, in terms of performance, to get to rivaling mainframes.
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