Gateway ALR 7200, User Manual

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System Features 17
Operating systems
The Gateway ALR 7300 is compliant with Intel MP Specification V1.1 or
V1.4 (BIOS-selectable). The following operating systems support
Symmetrical Multi-Processing (SMP).
•
Novell NetWare SMP 4.x and 4.1x
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SCO UNIX Open Server 5.X
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UnixWare 2.1, 7.0 and 7.1
•
Solaris
®
2.51 and 2.6
•
Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS)
•
Microsoft Windows NT
™
Server 4.0
•
Microsoft Windows NT
™
Server Enterprise 4.0
Current versions of the various operating systems are constantly changing.
Contact Gateway Technical Support for the latest information about
operating systems and support versions.
If your operating system does not support multi-processing, the system
adjusts the processing mode to Asymmetrical, meaning only the first CPU
accepts I/O interrupts. Any additional CPU’s in the system receive only
interprocessor interrupts.
Important!
The Pentium II Xeon
processor in this server is
designed to support 32-bit
operating systems and
applications. To ensure
optimum performance, use
only 32-bit programs on the
Gateway ALR 7300 system.
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