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From: smaug@eng.umd.edu (Kurt Lidl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3000 CPU slot
Keywords: AmigaDOS, SMP
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Date: 9 May 90 03:32:37 GMT
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In article <29VY02MJa5P.01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> kim@uts.amdahl.com (Kim E. DeVaughn) writes:
>
>Well ... you did say you thought multiprocessing would be "a snap", and I
>[...]
>
>I'm pleased to see that Zorro-III is supporting this, but couldn't this pose
>a problem when s/w that does this is run on a Zorro-II machine, where the co-
>processor chips can sneak-in in the middle of the read-modify-write cycle?
>
>Or are you planning to have the OS handle this for the application, and "do
>the right thing" depending on what kind of machine it's running on?

I can hardly wait.  AmigaDOS 3.0 introduces SMP support for all you
people with A3000's and a '040 card.

(SMP = Symetric Multi-Processor)
>
>All this foresight sounds very positive for the future.  Good job y'all!!!

Amen.

>UUCP:  kim@amdahl.amdahl.com

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