Wondering how the world _would_ have been, if this or that had happened, is a total waste of time. Period.
Let's not waste any more time on it, and get on with changing the world to what we want it to become, making it a better place for every computer user.
UPDATE: I found out that my bad (fast, but busy) connection was causing a lot of waiting-for-blocks for the rc5-client, so after I had recieved 1000 blocks by e-mail, the figures look a little different - still 1.26 Mkeys/s for one processor, but 2.47 Mkeys/s for two processors. This means that the gain from having a second processor is about 96% - a LOT better than I had imagined.
My system: Dual Celeron PPGA 300@450, a Gigabyte GA-686BX-D, two MSI 6905'ers( the old version, had to spend half an hour or so to solder a small wire from B75 to AN15 ) It has been running rock-stable for almost a month, doing a lot of different stuff from kernel compiling to mp3-compressing:o) Running RC5-64 client on it, the primary cpu completes blocks at 1.26 Mkeys/s, and the grand total comes to 2.34 Mkeys/s for both cpus. This is only +85.7% performance for the second cpu, I had been expecting at least 90%, but I guess I can live with that:-) The total cost for the board, SlotKETs and cpus was just below 450$, not including shipping costs, but if I had only bought a single-cpu mobo + one processor and OC'ed it to 450, that system would still have had a performance equal to a P2 450 and compared with the Alpha 21164 system previously mentioned in other Comments, it would be just as cheap and almost twice as fast. I checked the specs for the Alpha 21264, and it seems that my dual system more or less has equal performance to a system with one of those, but at an incredibly much lower price.
One slightly annoying thing about the Gigabyte board was, that after turning on virus protection in the BIOS, and then trying to boot, it started complaining about a virus in my MBR(LILO?), and gave one more warning about my operating system not being supported, and then it booted just fine. I think I will give Gigabyte a hard time about this, asking them for a new BIOS that knows about Linux(LILO)
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If they load up a different OS, they might start liking that other one...
Although the stability of the other OS will be hard to see for the users.
Wondering how the world _would_ have been, if this or that had happened, is a total waste of time. Period.
Let's not waste any more time on it, and get on with changing the world to what we want it to become, making it a better place for every computer user.
I just checked....all the cartoons on UserFriendly are GIFs.
UPDATE: I found out that my bad (fast, but busy) connection was causing a lot of waiting-for-blocks for the rc5-client, so after I had recieved 1000 blocks by e-mail, the figures look a little different - still 1.26 Mkeys/s for one processor, but 2.47 Mkeys/s for two processors. This means that the gain from having a second processor is about 96% - a LOT better than I had imagined.
My system: Dual Celeron PPGA 300@450, a Gigabyte GA-686BX-D, two MSI 6905'ers( the old version, had to spend half an hour or so to solder a small wire from B75 to AN15 ) :o) :-)
It has been running rock-stable for almost a month, doing a lot of different stuff from kernel compiling to mp3-compressing
Running RC5-64 client on it, the primary cpu completes blocks at 1.26 Mkeys/s, and the grand total comes to 2.34 Mkeys/s for both cpus.
This is only +85.7% performance for the second cpu, I had been expecting at least 90%, but I guess I can live with that
The total cost for the board, SlotKETs and cpus was just below 450$, not including shipping costs, but if I had only bought a single-cpu mobo + one processor and OC'ed it to 450, that system would still have had a performance equal to a P2 450 and compared with the Alpha 21164 system previously mentioned in other Comments, it would be just as cheap and almost twice as fast.
I checked the specs for the Alpha 21264, and it seems that my dual system more or less has equal performance to a system with one of those, but
at an incredibly much lower price.
One slightly annoying thing about the Gigabyte board was, that after turning on virus protection in the BIOS, and then trying to boot, it started complaining about a virus in my MBR(LILO?), and gave one more warning about my operating system not being supported, and then it booted just fine.
I think I will give Gigabyte a hard time about this, asking them for a new BIOS that knows about
Linux(LILO)