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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
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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?
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