[LinuxBIOS] newbee: Pl recommend MBD for dualcore and linuxBIOS

Darmawan Salihun darmawan.salihun at gmail.com
Sun Sep 16 11:47:08 CEST 2007


On 9/16/07, Corey Osgood <corey.osgood at gmail.com> wrote:
> Baski wrote:
> >
> >
> >     On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:37:40PM -0700, Baski wrote:
> >     > I need recommendation for Dual-core supported motherboard to try
> >     > linuxBIOS on.
> >
> >     Dual core or dual CPU?
> >
> >     Several supported Tyan boards (e.g. s2892) support two CPUs.
> >
> >
> >     //Peter
> >
> >     Dual-core,or multi-core, as in AMD X2 or intel duo-core.  Thanks
> >     in advance.
> >     - Baski
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Pinpoint customers
> >
> <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48250/*http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v9.php?o=US2226&cmp=Yahoo&ctv=AprNI&s=Y&s2=EM&b=50>who
> > are looking for what you sell.
>
> There is no Intel dual core (ie dual core p4 or c2d) yet. the mcp55
> chipset supports dual-core athlon 64.

I think he means Pentium Dual-Core which is a _dual core_ processor
based on Core2Duo processor (or Core micro-architecture for that
matter) with half the L2 Cache Size, it has full functional 2
cores-per-CPU. This kind processor family is cheaper than Core2Duo,
reminding me of Celeron ;-).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Pentium_Dual_Core
http://www.intel.com/products/processor/pentium_dual-core/index.htm
http://www.intel.com/products/processor_number/chart/pentium_dual-core.htm


Regards,

Darmawan Salihun
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