actually i want to know if you have a copy of the cd's.  i got a s900
off ebay dual 225 mhz cpus.  i really would be interested in using
macos on it again.



On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:13:58 -0500, Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
>