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Re: IBM's FIRST RISC System/6000(tm) based Shared Memory Parallel Processor

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From: Ronald G Minnich
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:09
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In article <BzA8E4.4EJ.2@cs.cmu.edu> lindsay+@cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) writes:
>This sounds awfully like the Genesis project out of IBM Austin.
They called it Junior.
>Do they still broadcast the I/O interrupts? Did they ever build the
>test-and-set chip?

They did not mention I/O. I asked them about whether they had a 
test-and-set built into the memory system;
they were not very specific but it sounded like it was there.
ron

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