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From: ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown)
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Subject: Re: OS/2 vs. Unix
Message-ID: <8563@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 23 Mar 90 04:40:28 GMT
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In article <4512@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> schaut@cat9.cs.wisc.edu (Rick Schaut) writes:
}did it!).  Better yet, with OS/2 on a tightly-coupled multiprocessor system,
}I can do that and still have the _full_ capabilities of another processor
}available for a third application I might want to run.  Neither the AT&T nor
}the Berkely flavors of UNIX can handle tightly-coupled multi-processors.

Well, consider how old BSD 4.3 is....  Mach has shared memory, handles 
tightly-coupled multi-processors (CMU has it running on pMax and MultiMax
systems), and lots of other goodies.  A 386 port is in progress; a Macintosh
port has been running for a while.
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