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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: parallel systems vs. uni-processors
Summary: Multiprocessor != Parallel
Message-ID: <1003@maxim.erbe.se>
Date: 22 Oct 89 15:51:09 GMT
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In article <12780018@acf4.NYU.EDU> tihor@acf4.NYU.EDU (Stephen Tihor) writes:

>ACutally all of DEC's new systems above the desktop are multiprocessors.  Gotta
>keep moving up to avoid them there killer micro's.

A multiprocessor system is *not* the same thing as a parallel system. DEC's
systems are symmetric multiprocessing systems (if now only Ultrix could run
symmetrically multiprocessing) but *not* parallel systems. Don't confuse these
two concepts, folks. Almost all parallel systems can function as symmetric
multiprocessors as well. The inverse not always true.

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