William Hargrave wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:
 MB> Anyway, there is now a vendor independent standard for up to 4 CPUs,
 MB> and this is supposedly what NT supports by default.
 WH> Linux compiled with SMP support apparently supports up to 16
 WH> CPUs, so maybe there is a better standard.
I don't really know.  It is also possible that Linux simply has support for 
some of the proprietary schemes.  I would also have to wonder, despite my 
liking for Linux, whether anyone has ever tested anything as exotic as 
support for 16 CPUs.  You would need to work for a really tolerant employer 
or research lab to get away with that, but there is a cadre of people doing 
fairly advanced things with Linux.  I think Arjen Lentz or someone like that 
was supposed to be porting MkLinux to the Cray, which is about the same 
ing.
 WH> I've never progressed to this new-fangled idea of having
 WH> more than one CPU per machine in any case ;-)
In college, I read everything ever written about parallel processing.  I 
don't think it is possible to do that now.
 
-- Mike
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