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From: alan@encore (Alan Langerman)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: RISC multiprocessors
Keywords: RISC,multiprocessors,parallel
Message-ID: <10364@encore.Encore.COM>
Date: 15 Nov 89 04:12:43 GMT
References: <13319@pur-ee.UUCP> <1012@maxim.erbe.se> <516@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> <1236@kuling.UUCP>
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In article <1236@kuling.UUCP>, irf@kuling (Bo Thide') writes:
>Hewlett-Packard has announced that they will introduce a multi HP-PA
>(RISC) processor HP9000 machine during 1990 and that this is the reason they
>will not provide a pure OSF/1, but rather make HP-UX OSF/1 compliant.
>OSF multiprocessor support will not be present until OSF/2 (by utilising
>MACH?).

Pure OSF/1 will have rather extensive tightly-coupled, shared-memory
multiprocessor support based on Mach.  Perhaps HP will re-analyze their
situation.

Alan