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From: joseph@valnet.UUCP (Joseph P. Hillenburg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 040 boards
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Date: 6 Dec 90 02:32:37 GMT
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eachus@linus.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) writes:

> 
>      Or you could just keep the 030 handling interrupts and whatever
> process currently has the second highest priority.  AmigaDOS should be
> very comfortable with two CPUs sharing the same memory if the
> semaphores are locked into uncacheable memory.
> 
> --
> 
> 					Robert I. Eachus
> 
> with STANDARD_DISCLAIMER;
> use  STANDARD_DISCLAIMER;
> function MESSAGE (TEXT: in CLEVER_IDEAS) return BETTER_IDEAS is...

How hard would it be to stick an '040 in an Axx00 and use the on-board 
CPU  for parallel processing? I'd imagine this would take major OS 
hacking, but how hard, really?

                        Joseph Hillenburg
             Secretary, Bloomington Amiga Users Group
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