Re: Apple? (subject change)

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From: Jim Williams
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 13:17

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tim@apple.com (Tim Olson) wrote:
>
>C.mmp was an early multiprocessor project at CMU, using PDP-11's and a
>crossbar switch to memory and I/O modules.  One of the novel features
>of this system (at the time) was that it was an MIMD (Multiple
>Instruction, Multiple Data) machine which symmetric (the "S" in SMP),
>and the OS was shared across all of the processors in the system.
>

Thanks.  It sounds like SMP isn't all that much of a big deal --
a network of micros inside my machine might even be better.  Too
many synchronization issues...

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