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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!apple!tim
  2. From: tim@Apple.COM (Tim Olson)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
  4. Subject: Re: NRW- coming soon
  5. Message-ID: <75753@apple.apple.COM>
  6. Date: 18 Dec 92 21:41:47 GMT
  7. References: <1992Dec16.235608.10172@dvorak.amd.com> <1gq5o9INNe2g@hamblin.math.byu.edu>
  8. Distribution: usa
  9. Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
  10. Lines: 14
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  12. In article <1gq5o9INNe2g@hamblin.math.byu.edu> bill@mathnx.math.byu.edu (Bill Smith) writes:
  13. | The 601(s!) won't do multiprocessing without unreleased additional
  14. | hardware. You'd have to wait for the 620.
  15.  
  16. Where did you get that idea?  The 601 is fully capable of symmetric
  17. multiprocessing, with MESI cache coherency protocol, full coherency
  18. of the memory queue, broadcast of all cache control instructions, etc.
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  23.     -- Tim Olson
  24.     Apple Computer Inc. / Somerset
  25.     (tim@apple.com)
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