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Article #1294Re: Apple? (subject change)
From: Jim Williams
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 22:00
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 22:00
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tim@apple.com (Tim Olson) wrote: > >UNIX was initially developed from ~'69 - 73. C.mmp/Hydra was started >in '71 and was in use at CMU in '75. Pluribus was started in '72. >Looks like SMP was certainly invented much earlier than you suspected. > I'm not sure if it is my understanding of the term SMP is off, your definition of Hydra is off, or if you are right. What does SMP mean -- in particular the "S" part? Also, Exactly what was (is?) Hydra? (I have some **extrememly** vague memory of the word. I have the feeling that *all* I knew was that there was something called Hydra.) My gut feeling is that Hydra was an early multi-processor project, but that the methodology was not very similar to what is now called SMP. I admit that I'm guessing. -- Sphere. Find a Linux/GNU Group for you: http://www.tiac.net/users/williams/lugnuts/ Buy Free UNIX!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sundog.tiac.net!usenet From: Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: Apple? (subject change) Date: 19 Aug 1995 22:00:00 GMT Organization: Spherical Projections Message-ID: <415mt0$psf@sundog.tiac.net> References: <docjoe-1408950754370001@ip100.wilmington.de.interramp.com> <40viu3$kti@sundog.tiac.net> <nevin-1708950756520001@mac-nevin.cs.arizona.edu> <40vpim$7kl@goonsquad.spies.com> <411tic$gbg@sundog.tiac.net> <41372h$4m6@cerberus.ibmoto.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: elision.tiac.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit)