Re: Multi-processor NeXT ( was: Re: Next computer )

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From: Andy Glew
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1990 22:15

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>Motorola can put at least 2, if not 4 88000s on a Eurocard (VME) format 
>board (actually smaller than the NeXT NuBus card).  The 88200 CMMUs 
>do all sorts of nice things like hardware cache coherency, etc.  
>NuBus, similarly, was designed with cheap multiprocessing in mind.
>Slide a board or two like that in the NeXT, teach Mach how to play
>ball, and you've got a lot of horsepower in that cube.

Why not just buy the multiprocessor 88K system from Motorola
Microcomputer Division with VME and SCSI peripherals and colour
graphics?
    (I wanted to put MACH on it, but I couldn't persuade Motorola
to give one to my research group.)
--
Andy Glew, aglew@uiuc.edu

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