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From: src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Killer Micro Question
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Date: 15 Nov 90 20:59:21 GMT
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In article <16364@s.ms.uky.edu> randy@ms.uky.edu (Randy Appleton) writes:

#I have been wondering how hard it would be to set up several 
#of the new fast workstations as one big Mainframe.  For instance,
#imagine some SPARCstations/DECstations set up in a row, and called
#compute servers.  Each one could handle several users editing/compiling/
#debugging on glass TTY's, or maybe one user running X.
#

you might want to have a look at some backissue of BYTE (about distributed
processing). they had an article about a compute server with a damn lot of
processors. it had a Real Fast Bus and processors dedicated for network
handling etc.
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