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Re: What? I'm confused. Sequent their strengths & weaknesses

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From: Eugene Miya
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 1989 18:13
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In article <17580@bellcore.bellcore.com> johno@dduck.UUCP (John OBrien) writes:
>A couple of answers here.
>The sequent architecture does automatic multiprocessing
across the available processors.
>The "Parallel Processing" is not done automatically!

Oh?      What's the difference?  [*if you think this terminology is bad,
I can refer you to other vendors with bad terminology...*]

Another gross generalization from

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From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
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Subject: Re: What?  I'm confused. Sequent their strengths & weaknesses
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Date: 8 Sep 89 18:13:59 GMT
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