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- From: andrew@cubetech.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Subject: Re: New RISC workstations / 88110 demise
- Keywords: RISC
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.070604.2071@cubetech.com>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 07:06:04 GMT
- References: <1992Nov2.154050.23454@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> <1992Nov2.170741.2092@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> <Bx5Iwn.to.2@cs.cmu.edu>
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- In article <Bx5Iwn.to.2@cs.cmu.edu> ddj+@cs.cmu.edu (Doug DeJulio) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov2.170741.2092@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> eboltz@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Eric Scott Boltz) writes:
- >>This week's Info World, "Reports from the Field" claims that NeXT has
- >>terminated the dual 88110 NRW and will go with the P5 (Pentium) from
- >>Intel in future machines.
- >>
- >>This sucks for a few reasons:
- >>1. We won't have a faster NeXT till the P5 ships.
- >>2. We're stuck with Intel.
- >>3. The NRW will be AS FAST AS A HIGH-END CLONE.
- >
- >This last item is not neccesarily true. Let's suppose NeXT goes with
- >the P5. Remember that the NeXT OS, Mach, already has support for
- >multiprocessor systems. Doesn't the P5 have enhanced support for
- >working in multiprocessor systems? Can you imagine a four processor
- >P5 system, with one processor devoted to a realtime Display PostScript
- >environment, another devoted to a realtime sound server (including a
- >port pin-compatible with the current DSP port), and two more for
- >general purpose CPU tasks? NeXT could put out a wide variety of
- >systems simply by changing the number of processors.
-
- Dedicating processors is stupid (a whole P5 for sound? what a waste).
- Let mach split everything up on all the processors and use thread
- priorities to ensure good interactive performance.
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-
- andrew
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