Re: Apple? (subject change)

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From: Jim Wong
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 13:20

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In article <417b37$ndh@sundog.tiac.net>, Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> wrote:

> Now for the SMP part.  "S" is symmetric, right?  What does this mean?
> (I think the last thing I read on multi-processors was Hillis's book on
> the processor which formed the foundation of Thinking Machines.)

In "High Performance Computing", Kevin Dowd defines a symmetric
multiprocessor as "a multiprocessor where all of the CPUs can run in
kernel mode with equal privileges...".  Based on this definition, I think
the C.mmp qualifies.

-- 
Jim Wong (jd-wong@uiuc.edu)

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Subject: Re: Apple? (subject change)
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 08:20:31 -0500
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