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In article <BBC.90Feb7154213@sicilia.rice.edu> bbc@sicilia.rice.edu (Benjamin Chase) writes:

   [Pushing this thread back towards comp.arch fodder]

Nice move :>

   I thought the NeXT architecture, and its choice of O/S, was designed
   to eventually adapt to multiple processors (no, I don't mean the DSP,
   you boneheads, I already know about that :-).  Any opinions on this?
   Other PC and workstation class machines are slowly appearing with
   multiple processors.  Any totally unsubstantiated rumors about the
   NeXT that someone would care to spew on the net? :-)

Mach was certainly designed to aide and abet distribution of work over
a network (which may very well live in one box, employ shared memory
and other nifty stuff).

Seems to me that one should probably build a bang up uniprocessor
first .... but I've been wrong before (and will be again, no doubt).

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