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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!ukma!lexmark!songer
- From: songer@lexmark.com (Christopher Songer)
- Subject: Re: New RISC workstations / 88110 demise
- Message-ID: <1992Nov05.201425.147119@lexmark.com>
- X-Disclaimer: These views are the poster's and not necessarily those of Lexmark
- Keywords: mach multiple processors NeXT OS RISC
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- References: <Bx5Iwn.to.2@cs.cmu.edu> <1992Nov3.234547.22120@serval.net.wsu.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 20:14:25 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov3.234547.22120@serval.net.wsu.edu> gerkman@binky.csc.wsu.edu (Joseph M. Gerkman) writes:
- >I'm not so sure that there wouldn't need to be additional changes made for
- >multiprocessor support in the NeXT OS and Mach, if the information
- >provided by hostinfo is to be believed (but then again, I'm assuming it's
- >correct):
- >
-
- This is correct -- support for multi-processor reportedly dropped single
- processor performance by 20 to 30 percent. It (along with external pagers)
- was disabled from the Next mach kernel.
-
- -Chris
-
- PS: Does anyone else find it interesting that shared objects work on top of
- RPC rather than mach ports?
-