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- From: val@news.ccutah.edu (Val Kartchner)
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- Subject: Re: Multiprocessing
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.210615.14698@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 21:06:15 GMT
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- peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany) writes:
- : Don't know about the Mac stuff: Is it really like several *hardware* *Macs*
- : in one box? Or are these other processors not the same as the main cpu?
- : If the latter, the Amiga has this too: Our bridgeboards with the Intel
- : processors are true multiprocessors, though not the same as the main cpu.
- : (And they even have their own slot bus system. But then, you only can have
- : one of them at a time, so it's more Dual-Processing than Multi...)
-
- I think that what most people want (when discussing this) and what I do want
- is an SMP (symetric multi-processors; a VAX term) Amiga. I would like the
- high-end Amigas to be able to support SMP.
-
- Perhaps, Commodore (engineers) are working on this right now. Perhaps,
- they won't do this until they get a new processor series in the Amiga.
- (The 68040 can do SMP due in part to it's bus snooping.) Perhaps, this
- is what Commodore will be announcing at COMDEX. (Hope. Hope! HOPE!)
-
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