Re: [cobalt-developers] XTR Kernel

[Bruce Timberlake <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Yes, I am not to upset on the hardware, except that I can't use all
> of it. Dual proc board, with a single proc. The software is another
> story all together. It's limiting the hardware.

The BIOS/ROM does not support the 2nd CPU.  During XTR development, it 
was intended to be a dual CPU-capable server, but money and release 
schedules got in the way, and it was never QA'd.  (There was at one 
point a dual CPU XTR running in the hardware lab at Cobalt; all that 
remained was SMP-izing most of the apps, LCD drivers, etc...)  Then 
Sun acquired Cobalt just as the XTR was being released, and it kind 
of got lost in the shuffle, especially with all the other harware 
problems that cropped up.

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Bruce Timberlake

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