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- Subject: Re: novel idea?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.205639.38@logica.co.uk>
- From: adrian@pluto.logica.co.uk (Adrian Putley)
- Date: 11 Jan 93 20:56:38 GMT
- Reply-To: adrian@pluto.logica.co.uk
- References: <erempel.726720401@sol.UVic.CA> <1993Jan11.171954.1@wombat.newcastle.edu.au>,<C0onL4.2qE@newcastle.ac.uk>
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- >>In article <erempel.726720401@sol.UVic.CA>, erempel@sol.UVic.CA (Evan Rempel) writes:
- >>>
- >>> I am looking for an OS (real time obviously) that has the
- >>> ability to swap a task from one cpu to another. This is merely
- >>> a multiprocessing system. The catch is that I want to be
- >>> able to mix cpu's. Say a 68040 as the general, but then a i860
- >>> running on the side for complex graphics. If the i860 becomes
- >>> bogged down (I don't know what I would be doing to bog down the
- >>> i860, but lets say I do) and the 68040 is sitting idle (or close
- >>> to it) can one of the tasks that is running on the i860 be switched
- >>> over to the 68040 to run there.
- >>>
- Have you looked into the Locus traansparent computing facility (TCF)?
-
- (Mind you, I don't know how real-time it is.)
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