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- From: esj@harvee.billerica.ma.us (Eric S Johansson)
- Subject: Re: Utterly bizarre idea for Atari
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Message-ID: <3082801@harvee.billerica.ma.us>
- References: <1992Aug15.043618.17054@news.csuohio.edu>
- Date: 15 Aug 92 07:39:48 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug15.043618.17054@news.csuohio.edu> max@madnick.cba.csuohio.edu
- (Max Polk) writes:
- > This is an utterly bizarre idea that will either send you into a
- > screaming fit or drop your diastolic blood pressure ten or twenty
- > points causing congestive heart failure because the idea is so far from
- > reality and anything you have ever known or felt before that you reel
- > in the multitude of possibility and/or confusion.
- >
- [ edited ]
- > Let's see: $189.95 / $6.95 is about 27, and $1199.00 / $5.95 is about
- > 201. Ignoring for a moment all of what you have grown to know and love
- > about operating systems and microcomputer architecture, consider this
- > possibility: couldn't you do more with 27 outstanding 68000's running
- > exactly one process each, in parallel, than you could with one 68020
- > running and switching between 27 processes, executing no more than one
- > instruction at a time (for roughly the same amount of money)?
-
- it is not as surreal/unreal as you think. I suggest you look into
- andy tannenbaum's amoeba system and see how close you came to
- reinventing the wheel.
-
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