Re: NRW- coming soon

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From: andrew
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 22:25

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In article <1gugnqINNbmt@mirror.digex.com> hacker@access.digex.com (Dark Hacker) writes:
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>I don't think the Mach architecture can support multiple threading across
>seperate CPUs.  I may be wrong but I don't think this "drop in CPU boards"
>stuff is going to work without massive OS and architecture restructing.

Mach is really awesome at multiprocessing.  In fact, it was originally
designed for a DEC massively parallel supercomputer that got
scrapped...  Anyway, it does support multiple threading across
separate CPU's.  You can also define "processor groups" and confine a
thread to a particular processor group.

Start writing multithreaded apps now so they scream if NeXT puts out a
multi-cpu box in the future...

andrew
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Subject: Re: NRW- coming soon
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