Re: NRW- coming soon

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From: Tim Olson
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 21:41

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In article <1gq5o9INNe2g@hamblin.math.byu.edu> bill@mathnx.math.byu.edu (Bill Smith) writes:
| The 601(s!) won't do multiprocessing without unreleased additional
| hardware. You'd have to wait for the 620.

Where did you get that idea?  The 601 is fully capable of symmetric
multiprocessing, with MESI cache coherency protocol, full coherency
of the memory queue, broadcast of all cache control instructions, etc.



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	-- Tim Olson
	Apple Computer Inc. / Somerset
	(tim@apple.com)

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Subject: Re: NRW- coming soon
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Date: 18 Dec 92 21:41:47 GMT
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