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- From: cjolley@iac.net (Carl Jolley)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: WAS: Motorola pricelist Now: Multiple CPUs
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Date: 27 Jan 1996 12:38:20 -0500
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- Chris \"Big-Kahuna\" Rampson (crampson@ford.com) wrote:
- : <IO92257@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> wrote:
- : >I just had a absolutely STUNNING jump of logic, reading this
- : >thread. Us consumers pay a lot of money (700 bucks?) for
- : >a decent chip one year, only to see it have a 3rd of that
- : >value the next year. Why can't we have a OS that is able
- : >to use banks of old CPUs in parallel? I'm sorry, but this
- : >cannot be that hard to do. I think the lack of multi-CPU
- : >OS'es and multi CPU system boards is directly related to
- : >some evil scheme by Intel...
- : >It HAS to be true. :)
- : >-StrangeBrew
-
- The facts indicate otherwise. Intel makes a massively parallel processing
- machine that consists of _many_ P6 cpu's. If I recall correctly the
- design acomodates up to 1024 separate processors. It is not likely
- in the near future that this type of machine would be offered at
- home PC price points. (Maybe next year (:-)
-
-
-
- : This is a great idea from the hardware side of things, the problem is with the
- : software (OS) that has to deal with multiple CPUs. It is probably the MOST
- : difficult software "problem" that one could ever find - writing an OS to use
- : multiple CPUs. I have seen this work well with the latest SUN Solaris OS (8
- : CPUs on a SPARC 1000). SUN went through some growing pains to bring Solaris up
- : to speed though.
-
- : First off, you MUST have a multi-threaded OS to make this work. This is what
- : SUN did when they created Solaris. Of course there are many more things to do
- : to make this work, but the multi-thread is a must. Can the next AmigaDOS be
- : written in this way? Unknown. It would be cool, but it would also be a bitch to
- : write!
-
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- : Owner and wielder of Occam's razor! (Committed to regula philosophandi)
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