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From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Re: What?  I'm confused. Sequent their strengths & weaknesses
Message-ID: <5053@eos.UUCP>
Date: 8 Sep 89 18:13:59 GMT
References: <1263@syma.sussex.ac.uk> <1309@syma.sussex.ac.uk> <218@runxtsa.runx.oz> <17580@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Reply-To: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.
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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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