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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Rumors about the Macintosh IIci
Message-ID: <3974@phri.UUCP>
Date: 2 Sep 89 18:49:59 GMT
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In <10213@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig):
> Let me attach this with another rumor and suggest that this might be
> Apple's first machine with multiprocessing capability.  Not multi*tasking*,
> mind you:  multiprocessing means really physically running two programs at
> once, like the Commodore Amiga has been doing for years.

	I'm not sure I understand what you mean.  If I am to take what you
said literally, i.e. "physically running two programs at once", then you are
talking about a MIMD multiprocessor, like a Sequent or Alliant.  Is that what
you meant, or (more likely, I think) that it will be a uniprocessor capable
of timesharing by having task switches controlled by an internal clock (as in
your typical Unix or VMS system) rather than by mouse clicks (as in
multifinder)?
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