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One may have go custom for *-way Opteron based systems i.e. custom glue logic based from Cray?s Red Storm (MPP) technology i.e. "10,368 Opterons are linked in a three dimensional mesh using Hypertransport."

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digitaldisaster wrote: @blitterstorm At the time there were NO affordable dual CPU systems and none of the desktop OS's took advantage of them, you needed a high end Unix server/workstation OS and an expensive computer to have 2 or more CPU's. The PowerPC BeBox and the BeOS changed this, the OS was designed from the ground up to be heavily multithreaded, multitasking and to support multiple processors (up to 8, this was a hard coded limit

I guess the magical 8 comes from limitation from the bus system, If you make a graph
for the performance gains for numer of cpus on a bus, you will se that the gains in performance pr cpu decreases, untily finaly the performance is getting worse by adding more cpus, because of the shared bandwidth of the bus.
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It would be possible to create a geekport compatible system using an FPGA or even a PIC but I can't see why you would want to, it was never really used, esspecailly not commercailly.

I know that It wasnt a commercial sucess, but I was taking about the original design goals. I guess that there would have been some commercial hardware avilable if, the BeBox hardware wasent canceled. But back to the main question why.
Because I think, some Be freaks care!, and also because I see it could be used to connect cheap homebrew harware to the computer, yes It can of cause also be done in other ways. It dont think it would be too costy, to add this geek port to the mobo.
If this geekport could help sell more than x motherboards of the Amiga 5, and the be freaks will be happy to use the Amiga 5, thats almost all I and alot Amiga freaks would need to know.

I would not mind doing a litle reseach how much It maters to Be freaks, If you thinks It will make sense to market the Amiga 5 as being a cool BeBox.

I guess that the software support is the potential showstoper here!