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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
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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.
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