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- From: boris@sys6626.bison.mb.ca (boris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: Re: Utterly bizarre idea for Atari
- Message-ID: <9FwoPB3w164w@sys6626.bison.mb.ca>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 22:41:43 CST
- References: <l90309INN6q5@aludra.usc.edu>
- Organization: system 6626 BBS, Winnipeg MB
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- baffoni@aludra.usc.edu (Juxtaposer) writes:
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- > In article <1992Aug15.043618.17054@news.csuohio.edu> max@madnick.cba.csuohio.
- > >This is an utterly bizarre idea that will either send you into a
- > >screaming fit or drop your diastolic blood pressure ten or twenty
- > [idea of making a 68k based multiprocessor Atari machine removed]
- > My suggestions:
- >
- > To address 1) above, use a 68040 as a minimum - you need not get a faster one
- > (<=25MHz should be more than enough, and with the '040/33, prices should be
- > dropping) - this would be an excellent choice of multiprocessor as it has
- > built in cache w/cache snoop (if something on the bus requests data that is
- > cached on the '040, it supplies the data), MMU so that memory can be
- > partitioned however needed (ie. processor N's memory, sharable, etc.), and
- > it can address 32bits of dataspace so that a huge chunk of memory can be
- > partitioned dynamically to the processors. Most importantly, the '040 does
- > not bus-master the bus - it requests access to the bus just like any other
- > device on the bus, thus making it nice for other processors that might be
- > present.
- >
- > So how does that sound? Atari - feel like making some low-cost
- > multi-processor workstations?
- >
- Sounds like the new Falcon to me.
-
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