SMP Petition

On the 25th of June, 1999 my friend JC's site (JC's PC News'n'Links) reported a rumor that Intel has started disabling the AN15 pin of Socket 370 in order to stop people from running cheap SMP systems. The Register also reported JC's rumor.

I hope that the rumor is baseless, but just in case it turns out to be true, I have decided to run a petition to ask Intel to not remove the SMP capability from Socket 370 Celeron A's. If you would like to participate in this petition, please enter your name, city and a valid e-mail address in the form below.

The petition will read:

We, the undersigned consumers hereby respectfully request that Intel does not disable the SMP capabilities of the Celeron processors. We believe that business users will use Pentium II, III and Xeon processors for production servers due to their large L2 cache sizes. Disabling SMP on Celerons will only hurt technical enthusiasts.

I will send the petition to Intel in batches, probably once a week. Please do not sign more than once, but feel free to encourage your friends to sign the petition - also please let other web sites know that I am running this petition. The more names I can gather, the more effect the petition may have on Intel.

Click on the submit button above to add your name to the petition. (Don't forget to fill in the form before clicking) Thank you!

Thank you for participating,

Bill Henning
Editor, CPUReview

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