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- From: krafsur@iastate.edu (King Henry V)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: WAS: Motorola pricelist Now: Multiple CPUs
- Date: 28 Jan 96 21:13:38 GMT
- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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- In <4ednuc$t55@little-miami.iac.net> cjolley@iac.net (Carl Jolley) writes:
- You ever heard of a Sun Spark Station? Multi-cpu minicomputers. Also
- there is the Be-Box.
-
- >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!
-
- >: --
- >: Owner and wielder of Occam's razor! (Committed to regula philosophandi)
-
- >: _/_/_/ _/ _/ Chris "Big Kahuna" Rampson M.S.
- >: _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/_/ _/_/_/ crampson@ford.com
- >: _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/_/ NO cutdowns, flames or insults
- >: _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ NO such thing as a stupid question!
- >: _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ "NOT an OFFICIAL FORD spokesperson"
-
- >--
- >**** cjolley@iac.net <Carl Jolley>
- >**** All opinions are my own and not necessarily those of my employer ****
- --
- Ed Krafsur
- krafsur@iastate.edu
-