Re: New RISC workstations / 88110 demise

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From: Christopher Songer
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 20:14

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In article <1992Nov3.234547.22120@serval.net.wsu.edu> gerkman@binky.csc.wsu.edu (Joseph M. Gerkman) writes:
>I'm not so sure that there wouldn't need to be additional changes made for  
>multiprocessor support in the NeXT OS and Mach, if the information  
>provided by hostinfo is to be believed (but then again, I'm assuming it's  
>correct):
>

This is correct -- support for multi-processor reportedly dropped single
processor performance by 20 to 30 percent. It (along with external pagers)
was disabled from the Next mach kernel.

-Chris

PS: Does anyone else find it interesting that shared objects work on top of
RPC rather than mach ports?

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