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From: ken@dali.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
Subject: Re: Adding Symmetric Multiprocessing to Amiga UNIX.
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Date: 29 Jan 91 21:17:04 GMT
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In article <994@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) writes:
>In article <20668@hydra.gatech.EDU> ken@dali.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) writes:
>>Now, as long as the '040 and the '030 could interrupt one another, you
>>could use the '030 as an I/O front end of some sort.
>Not only for an I/O front end (including tcp/ip), but for X11 graphics
>rendering, possibly?

Keith Packard (the X Performance Man at MIT) has indicated that the 
best way to speed up an X server is to put it on a fast processer with
good memory bandwidth and direct access to the frame buffer.  The
worst way is to try and stick it at arms length on some form of
co-processor.  Bottom line seems to be that if your concern is a fast
X server, leave it on the '040.  If you offload disk, net and serial
traffic from the main CPU, I think you'll see a big win all the way
around.  'Course, I'd want to get some empirical data before I bet the
farm on it...

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