Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Single tasking the wave of the future? Message-ID: <1227@sugar.UUCP> Date: Sat, 5-Dec-87 09:26:03 EST Article-I.D.: sugar.1227 Posted: Sat Dec 5 09:26:03 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Dec-87 05:34:23 EST References: <201@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <388@sdcjove.CAM.UNISYS.COM> <988@edge.UUCP> <147@sdeggo.UUCP> Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX Lines: 13 Summary: Hell no. In article <147@sdeggo.UUCP>, dave@sdeggo.UUCP (David L. Smith) writes: > I agree with John, however the ideal towards which we are striving is multi- > tasking operating systems and single-tasking processors. Admit it, don't > you hate having your processor multi-task? Hello, no. Until you have something incredible like 64000 processors in your box, you're going to find yourself running out of the suckers. If you have a connection machine on your desk, great! If you've got a transputer, you lose. What happens when you want to start up that 5th or 9th program and you've only got 4 or 8 CPUs? -- -- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter -- Disclaimer: These U aren't mere opinions... these are *values*.