hi,

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the answer.  So it sounds like one can then buy the dual
> processor card and a 9600 uniprocessor and just swap them, right?

yip. there is one exception: the higher clocked 8600 & 9600 series with 
'Mach 5' CPU (read: the 8600/250, 9600/300, and 9600/350) have a 
different card design (because of the Inline Cache System those cards 
use) and will not work in 'older' 8600/9600's, and vice versa. take 
care of this.

> Next stupid question.  The 7300-8600 systems all seem to have
> interchangeable processors right?

yip.

>   If so, does that mean that one
> could stick a 9600 dual processor board in say a 7300?  Or would it
> fit but then just smoke the power supply.

it runs seemlessly. :) i had a nPower 360+ equipped 7600 myself back in 
1997 or so when i did large renderings...

> And no, I wasn't expecting MacOS to run on the resulting system :-)

it does -- try photoshop ;)

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