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In article <Bx5Iwn.to.2@cs.cmu.edu> ddj+@cs.cmu.edu (Doug DeJulio) writes:
>In article <1992Nov2.170741.2092@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> eboltz@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Eric Scott Boltz) writes:
>>This week's Info World, "Reports from the Field" claims that NeXT has
>>terminated the dual 88110 NRW and will go with the P5 (Pentium) from
>>Intel in future machines.
>>
>>This sucks for a few reasons:
>>1. We won't have a faster NeXT till the P5 ships.
>>2. We're stuck with Intel.
>>3. The NRW will be AS FAST AS A HIGH-END CLONE.
>
>This last item is not neccesarily true.  Let's suppose NeXT goes with
>the P5.  Remember that the NeXT OS, Mach, already has support for
>multiprocessor systems.  Doesn't the P5 have enhanced support for
>working in multiprocessor systems?  Can you imagine a four processor
>P5 system, with one processor devoted to a realtime Display PostScript
>environment, another devoted to a realtime sound server (including a
>port pin-compatible with the current DSP port), and two more for
>general purpose CPU tasks?  NeXT could put out a wide variety of
>systems simply by changing the number of processors.

Dedicating processors is stupid (a whole P5 for sound?  what a waste).
Let mach split everything up on all the processors and use thread
priorities to ensure good interactive performance.


andrew
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