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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!liuida!d92thoan
- From: d92thoan@odalix.ida.liu.se (Thorbjorn Andersson)
- Subject: Multi-processors
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.194518.9962@ida.liu.se>
- Sender: news@ida.liu.se
- Organization: CIS Dept, Univ of Linkoping, Sweden
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 19:45:18 GMT
- Lines: 22
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- Hi.
-
- Everybody's talking about how fast their procssor is
- when they are discuissing the speed of their computer.
- Is it possible to connect more than one processor to
- e.g. an amiga? (So you can have more than one running
- at the same time) How much of the OS needs rewriting,
- or is it totally impossible for the architecture to
- handle more than one processor?
- Isn't it soon necessary to do so, I mean it takes
- enormous resources to develop a new chip in state
- of the art-technology but not so much money to buy
- 6-10 uProcessors. (Cray & co must pay some attention
- to multi-processor architechtures, now when the Thinking
- Machine's CM5 passes Cray's best machine an a factor
- of 100 in peak performance.) Must we wait for the 680x0,
- which always is delayed and veeery expensive, can't we just
- buy some 'more processors and plug in'? (So to speak.)
-
- Regards,
-
- Thorbjorn Andersson
-