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From: kim@uts.amdahl.com (Kim E. DeVaughn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3000 CPU slot
Message-ID: <72GN02gAa4MS01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 5 May 90 17:34:24 GMT
References: <11207@cbmvax.commodore.com> <11378@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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In article <11378@cbmvax.commodore.com>, valentin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Valentin Pepelea) writes:
>
> There is no reason why the motherboard 68030 should not be able to access
> the accelerator's memory, except of course real estate and complexity. That's
> "true multi-processing", not parallel processing, by the way.
> 
> The operating system is not written to automatically take advantage of such
> an independent accelerator, but it is conceivable to write one in the future.
> Depending on whose opninion you ask for, here at Commodore, you will either
> be told that is incredibly difficult, or that it's a snap.

Are you implying that Zorro3 now supports atomic read-write-update cycles now
(i.e., test-and-set, and similar operations)?

And what about cache coherency (I'm not up on 030 bus-snooping specs)?


> I'm part of the
> Snap, Crackle and Pop group. :-)

Is that different than the "poof!" group?  :-)


/kim

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