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On woensdag, augustus 28, 2002, at 03:14 , Thunder from the hill wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Pavel Machek wrote:
>>> -   bool 'Multiquad NUMA system' CONFIG_MULTIQUAD
>>> +   bool 'Multi-node NUMA system support' CONFIG_X86_NUMA
>>
>> Why not simply CONFIG_NUMA?
>
> Because NUMA is subordinate to X86, and another technology named NUMA
> might appear? Nano-uplinked micro-array... No Ugliness Munched Archive?
> Whatever...

Until we port Linux to SGI Origin 200/2000/3000 NUMA clusters....

And AFAIK there are more hw suppliers working on designing NUMA systems. 
All more
or less the same, and again all very different.

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