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From: shj@ultra.com (Steve Jay)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Single user vs. shared (was Re: Killer Micros and vectorized code)
Message-ID: <1990Mar19.214112.4899@ultra.com>
Date: 19 Mar 90 21:41:12 GMT
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brooks@maddog.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks) writes:

>You CAN have exclusive access to a CPU in a suitably parallel resource
>composed of Killer Micros, yet efficiently share it with others.

Maybe you CAN do it (and I'm not sure you can, but that's a different
argument), but will your system administrator LET you do it?

-Steve
shj@ultra.com