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From: coco@cbnewsl.att.com (felix.a.lugo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: 030/040 Duality?
Message-ID: <1991Feb22.034020.24127@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 22 Feb 91 03:40:20 GMT
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In article <1338@toaster.SFSU.EDU> eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes:
| In article <1991Feb19.185400.7763@cbnewsl.att.com>
| 	coco@cbnewsl.att.com (felix.a.lugo) writes:
| >	Has anybody been able to get a NeXT cube working with both the 030 and
| >	040 boards simultaneously?
| 
| Type
| 	hostinfo
| 
| If it says "Kernel configured for a single processor only." then
| the multiprocessing support just isn't in there.  This is the
| case for the 2.0 Release.
| 
| 					-=EPS=-

	You misunderstood!  I never mentioned having multiprocessor support
	through Mach, I just asked if anyone had been able to get the two
	boards up and running on a single NeXT cube (each board running
	independently!)  If this can be done, you can network the two boards
	through the 10base2 connectors and designate a server and a client.
	The client could be configured, for example, as the print server for
	the NeXT laser-printer, freeing-up the server processor.  You would
	indeed have "distributed multiprocessing".  Think of a 3D-animation
	application;  the server might be busy displaying a complicated 3D
	animation, while the client is hurriedly calculating the NeXT frame(s)
	in the animation sequence.

	So, again I ask, has anyone done this?  NeXT tech., is this possible?

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