Title pretty much sums it up. I'm not sure if this topic has been brought up before. I always wondered why chip companies gone from using a socket based processor (socker 5,7) to a slot based one ...

Because of Intel's patent on the Slot 1 processor's CPU interface, the company is the sole source of these processors, primarily characterized by their dedicated backside L2-cache bus. Separate buses ...

Hey everybody. Got me this old SGI 320 which I like a lot. Running windows 2000 with a p3 800 and 512 megs RAM. Seemed to me it might be a curiosity to add a second processor to help with some of the ...