From: Adam Flinton 

Geo. wrote:

> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
> news:4057b6bc{at}w3.nls.net...
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>>I know, I just had to brag a bit.    (The AS/400 bus is also quite a
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> bit
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>>faster than a PC bus too.)
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> the RS6000 I have has 3 PCI buses.
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> Geo. (it's still slow if you ask me)
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I'm curious what effect this new incoming PCI bus std (PCI-X(press)) will
have on the bigger box makers as it certainly looks to me like it would
suffice for even large boxes (esp if you can simply keep doubling PCI-X
lanes).


Already we're seeing (with the steady growth in the AMD-64 clone market)
server style stuff moving towards the clone mobo makers e.g. multi-cpu
mobo's with 4/8+ RAM banks.

When you consider that the vast majority of the server market is 4CPU &
below then I reckon AMD-64 & the cloners +PCI-X (+S-ATA???) may be able
to become the basic server std.

Adam

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