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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elmer who wrote (50825)	2/24/1999 1:20:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572510

<I don't think there is an official definition of server> Actually, there are several definitions of "server." You can get an old Pentium MMX, connect a network card and a printer to it, and call it a "print server." Or you can connect a small office of computers to a single "file server," and that file server won't need anything more than a Pentium II and a fast hard drive. I think the servers that Xeons normally go into are called "enterprise servers." These are the kinds of servers that usually hold a gig of memory or more, connect up to many SCSI hard drives in a RAID format, and direct traffic to one or more hefty-duty network cards. I think Socket 7 processors can do multiprocessing, if you have chipsets and motherboards to support it. I don't think anyone really pursued it, though. I don't know anything about the Socket 7 bus protocol, except that it's transaction-based (duh). Tenchusatsu