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Hello,

> Why not? MacOS recognized MP cards as far back as 8.6. Their MP API was
> actually quite mature, even as early as the mid-90's. 
My 2x604e UMAX Pulsar came with MacOS 7.6 and an additional CD with software to support the 2nd processor and a bunch of demos, featuring a very fast fractal renderer that ran on both CPUs :)


> For pure performance, though, I'll
> take a single 300MHz G3 upgrade card over a DP 180MHz 604e card (and I'm
> a big fan of MP because slower CPUs are cheaper than faster ones and MP
> horsepower can be done cheap).
I agree - for everyday work my 300MHz G3 with 1MB cache is way faster than the two 604es at 233MHz and only the slow mainboard cache. When it comes to FPU-bound tasks it's the other way around though.

have fun
Michael

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