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From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Re: obsolete Sequent software
Message-ID: <124708@uunet.UU.NET>
Date: 4 Mar 91 20:10:47 GMT
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In article <1439@torsqnt.UUCP> david@torsqnt.UUCP (David Haynes) writes:
>
>But let's use current Sequent technology, 30 processors at
>14 MIPS (486s in the Series 2000/700) 

The sad thing is, that if you put 30 procs in the box, you
won't be able to put much else in. Once again we run up against
stupid backplane rules: "These are high priority, these are low,
and these are dynamically determined." Now if only we could move
that "firewall" one slot over...

As a practical limit, 20 CPU's is about right.
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