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To: Joe NYC who wrote (41152)	5/25/2001 1:43:45 PM
From: andreas_wonisch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Joe, Re: With that off my chest, I kind of like Smart MP. Any ideas if there will be something in Palomino chips preventing desktop chips to operate as "Smart MP" CPUs? The word "smart" probably refers to the bus architecture opposed to Intel's "dumb" approach to share the bus. But it still sounds ugly IMO. Nobody will call the CPUs that way. Reminds me of "Athlon with performance enhancing cache memory". That one was even uglier... I don't think that there are any special features in Palomino so that it can work in MP boards. There's IMO a greater than 90% probability that Athlons and even Durons will just work fine with the AMD760-MP chipset; they are just not officially supported by AMD. It's probably like the (old) Celerons from Intel which also worked fine for MP. I can imagine that AMD MP systems with Thunderbirds/Durons will be quite popular among enthusiasts as soon as cheaper boards from Asus etc. arrive. Andreas