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Article #2866Re: Faster Loading : Helios on ATW, Transputers
From: J.B.W.Webber
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1989 08:59
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1989 08:59
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In article <257@marvin.moncam.co.uk> emmo@moncam.co.uk (Dave Emmerson) writes: > >>WORM drives beat this problem. Maybe a proper loading mechanism >>will come out with machines such as the ATW, where one processor >>loads, while the other is already running. > >While the other processor is already running WHAT? i.e. a shell : thus the user is up and running, without having to wait for the whole network to boot, ramdisks/caches to be filled. By the time one is ready to, say, C compile, the compiler parts, libraries etc. are sitting in memory, on the relevant processors. i.e. the first part of a pipeline of processes : by the time the data pops out of the first part of the pipeline, the program can be in place for the next. Perfection is not yet with us, but I like what already exists. (My experience is limited to the Helios OS, from Perihelion). beau webber jbww@ukc.ac.uk
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!ukc!harrier.ukc.ac.uk!jbww From: jbww@ukc.ac.uk (J.B.W.Webber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Faster Loading : Helios on ATW, Transputers Keywords: parallel, loading, ATW, Helios, Perihelion, Transputer, T800 Message-ID: <1958@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> Date: 4 Aug 89 08:59:07 GMT References: <257@marvin.moncam.co.uk> Reply-To: jbww@ukc.ac.uk (J.B.W.Webber) Organization: Physics Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. Lines: 22