I came across (and onli I can seem to do this) an ASUS motherboard that for some reason (I assume the engineers were high one night) supports not one but [i]TWO[/i] MMX-enabled 233mhz Pentium 1 processors.
What? :v:
I didn't even know the original Pentium core even supported SMP.
Okay, so back then I can see NT 4 being used as it supported SMP but this looks like a consumer board more than a high-end workstation or server board which means the end user might of been running Windows 98 or even Windows 95.
My question:
Was windows 98 even capable of supporting more than one physical processor?
I'm wondering if it's worth it to put this board up to a bunch of benchmark tests to see how dual pentiums compare to a single Pentium 233
I don't think so. You would be better off with Windows 2000 or possibly NT 4 if you wanted to mess with it.
NT introduced SMP support. All the 16bit and 9x line didn't support it.
[QUOTE=birkett;24381777]NT introduced SMP support. All the 16bit and 9x line didn't support it.[/QUOTE]
Hmm. I guess I'll have to live with NT 4 then. :/
Suprisingly Windows 2000 seems too much for these boards. I got a similar board but with dual Pentium Pros and 2K was nasty on it after it was all up-to-date.
Thanks.
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