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- From: rminnich@super.org (Ronald G Minnich)
- Subject: Re: IBM's FIRST RISC System/6000(tm) based Shared Memory Parallel Processor
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.130934.16716@super.org>
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- Organization: Supercomputing Research Center (Bowie, MD)
- References: <1g86boINNh5m@fido.asd.sgi.com> <1992Dec13.134812.19905@super.org> <BzA8E4.4EJ.2@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:09:34 GMT
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- In article <BzA8E4.4EJ.2@cs.cmu.edu> lindsay+@cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) writes:
- >This sounds awfully like the Genesis project out of IBM Austin.
- They called it Junior.
- >Do they still broadcast the I/O interrupts? Did they ever build the
- >test-and-set chip?
-
- They did not mention I/O. I asked them about whether they had a
- test-and-set built into the memory system;
- they were not very specific but it sounded like it was there.
- ron
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