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- From: UweKloss@lionbbs.bs.open.de ( Uwe Kloss )
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: Re: Utterly bizarre idea for Atari
- Message-ID: <H.MXapKbpLXXU@lionbbs.bs.open.de>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 22:04:50 GMT
- References: <1992Aug15.043618.17054@news.csuohio.edu>
- Reply-To: UweKloss@lionbbs.bs.open.de
- Organization: The Lion Town BBS, Brunswik, Germany
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- X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.00 Rev. Jan 16 1992
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- In <1992Aug15.043618.17054@news.csuohio.edu>, Max Polk writes:
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- > 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)?
- Two problems:
- - (1/2) stuff that much electronics in a little box
- - (1/2) supply enough electricity without melting the box
- - (1) let 27 microprocessors access the main memory
- simultaneously
-
- (the first two are marked 1/2 because the can be easily fixed: ;-)
- - get a bigger box
- - get a better power supply
-
- There also is a simple rule:
- The more chips, the more bucks!
-
- It's not only the chips that make this, but the mainboard design.
- You need local memory, cache, or something else.
-
- > Consider what a great product Atari could have, flying into the twenty-
- > first century at low cost, if they could write an operating system that
- > is based upon the architecture of one microprocessor for each process
- > that can run.
- That's it!
- IF THEY COULD WRITE IT!
- If I sometimes take a look at some parts of TOS and the current
- bugs, I doubt!
- --
- Eliminiere das Unmoegliche. Was immer uebrig bleibt, so
- unwahrscheinlich es auch wirkt, muss die Wahrheit sein.
- Aber was ist, wenn einmal NICHTS mehr uebrig bleibt?
- (nach: John Brunner - Mehr Dinge zwischen Himmel und Erde)
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