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Apple releases speed- and CPU-bumped G5s
Authored by: nite77 on Apr 01, '04 11:04:17AM

well. and maybe the fact that computer's CPU *must* come in pairs (inside one system), they cannot be odd-numbered. It's just the way it works, somebody more knowledgeable of the fine details can fill me in here, but rest assured, the fact is this.

One *can* build a three-CPU system, but only by networking two or more computers together (like the VT's BigMac, although it too had an even number of CPUs).

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Apple releases speed- and CPU-bumped G5s
Authored by: olivesoft on Apr 01, '04 04:28:47PM

Explain the single CPU system, then...8-)

Computer people tend to design things in powers of two: 1, 2, 4, 8, etc.

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Apple releases speed- and CPU-bumped G5s
Authored by: paddlefoot on Apr 01, '04 05:09:49PM

Then a Google search on "three-processor computer" shouldn't turn up any links at all, right?



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Apple releases speed- and CPU-bumped G5s
Authored by: the1truestripes on Apr 02, '04 03:48:29PM
and maybe the fact that computer's CPU *must* come in pairs (inside one system), they cannot be odd-numbered.

Back when Sequent made hardware they made boxes with the CPUs on cards, you could use one or two CPUs per card and plug up to 16 or so into the box. It was a shared memory box, so if you put 3 CPUs in it would be like a 3 CPU G5. Well except I think they were 16Mhz CPUs, but that was pretty fast back then.

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