Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!unisoft!gethen!bdt!david From: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: transputer Message-ID: <314@bdt.UUCP> Date: 6 May 88 22:26:26 GMT References: <28201@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <4679@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Reply-To: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer) Organization: Beckemeyer Development Tools, Oakland, CA Lines: 17 Keywords: process communication parallel Yeah! In article <4679@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> braner@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (braner) writes: >Helios is NOT Unix. Unix is NOT designed for a multiprocessor personal >machine, either. To quote a Helios document (by N.H. Garnett, Perihelion >Software): I'm sure a lot of people already know this, but for those that don't. There are multi-processor hacks of UNIX in development, even by some pretty major companies. Unix isn't designed for a multi-CPU system but it has been hacked to run on multi-CPU systems by basically dividing the kernel up and letting parts run concurrently. Some vendors have gone with "message passing". I know of at least one company putting in major efforts to get a multi-CPU version of BSD UNIX to run faster. -- David Beckemeyer | "To understand ranch lingo all yuh Beckemeyer Development Tools | have to do is to know in advance what 478 Santa Clara Ave, Oakland, CA 94610 | the other feller means an' then pay UUCP: ...!ihnp4!hoptoad!bdt!david | no attention to what he says"