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- From: copes@pride.cs.curtin.edu.au (Simon Cope)
- Subject: Re: Crazy Multiprocessing Idea
- Message-ID: <copes.715503944@pride>
- Sender: news@cujo.curtin.edu.au (News Manager)
- Organization: Curtin University of Technology
- References: <1992Aug25.172659.7639@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> <al158305.715456490@academ01>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 07:05:44 GMT
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- al158305@academ01.mty.itesm.mx (Gustavo Cordova Avila) writes:
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-
- > Hmmm... sounds quite nice if I may say so. Build the board with it's
- >own CPU and some private + some shared memory (shared with the host system),
- >and write a teeny little OS for the board, which would be mainly RPC calls,
- >and also a 'MULTIPROCESSOR.library' for the host :)
- > I don't know if said library would be too far fetched, but it could
- >include for example, a 'select_card' call, 'loaddata', 'savedata',
- >'sendrpc', etc etc. That way, each specific application that used said
- >cards could adapt to new ones without much effort. What do you think?
-
- >-Gus
- >--
- >Gustavo Cordova Avila | Majoring in Electronics & Computer Sciences
- >al158305@academ01.mty.itesm.mx | "...I came from the Desert!!" (Sonora)
- >al158305@[131.178.4.10] | RangerElf @ IRC (usually in #amiga)
-
- Last year three engineers did just that for their project here. Their board
- uses a tms chip, has a couple of megs of ram on it, they wrote a mini kernel
- for it, and made their own run command from AmigaDOS to run a concurrent task
- on it. The board pulled 5 mips, and plugged into the side of an A500. Their
- project was to investigate converting a single processor system to a multi
- proc one. The demo they wrote for it was a 3d thingo that ran real fast.
-
- Just thought you'd like to know that it is possible.
- --
- copes@cs.curtin.edu.au
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