Re: Apple? (subject change)

Article View: comp.sys.powerpc

Article #1450

#1450

From: Molnar Ingo
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 09:23

16 lines
1670 bytes

Jim Williams (williams@tiac.net) wrote:

> 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...

SMP will be interesting once the P6 is out. Pentiums had their L2 caches out
on the bus, which generated too much bus traffic and syncronisation problems.
The P6 with on-chip L2 cache is much more exciting, now the Linux SMP project
really makes sense.

--
                                                    --------------------------
                                                    | MIngo  (-: Ingo Molnar |
                                                    | mingo@hercules.elte.hu |
                                                    --------------------------

Technical Details

Message-ID: <41c7ms$gv0@goliat.eik.bme.hu>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.bme.hu!mingo

References:

<40viu3$kti@sundog.tiac.net> <nevin-1708950756520001@mac-nevin.cs.arizona.edu> <40vpim$7kl@goonsquad.spies.com> <411tic$gbg@sundog.tiac.net> <41372h$4m6@cerberus.ibmoto.com>  <415mt0$psf@sundog.tiac.net> <416gvs$rso@cerberus.ibmoto.com> <417cks$ndh@sundog.tiac.net>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.bme.hu!mingo
From: mingo@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE (Molnar Ingo)
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)
Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel
Date: 22 Aug 1995 09:23:40 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Budapest
Message-ID: <41c7ms$gv0@goliat.eik.bme.hu>
References: <40viu3$kti@sundog.tiac.net> <nevin-1708950756520001@mac-nevin.cs.arizona.edu> <40vpim$7kl@goonsquad.spies.com> <411tic$gbg@sundog.tiac.net> <41372h$4m6@cerberus.ibmoto.com>  <415mt0$psf@sundog.tiac.net> <416gvs$rso@cerberus.ibmoto.com> <417cks$ndh@sundog.tiac.net>
NNTP-Posting-Host: hercules.elte.hu
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]

Reply to Parent Message