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From: barton@holston.UUCP (Barton A. Fisk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: NCR's 4000 series to replace towers???
Summary: My Systempro isn't that heavy
Message-ID: <5905@holston.UUCP>
Date: 16 Apr 91 02:25:29 GMT
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In article <637@wrangler.WLK.COM>, bill@wrangler.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) writes:
> In article <106632@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> vaigl-j@carp.cis.ohio-state.edu (James Vaigl) writes:
> >I don't know about Unix, but I'd say that it will be a *long* time
> >before you see a version of OS/2 that supports MP platforms, and when/if
> >it does, i'd say the odds are overwhelmingly against really symmetric 
> >use of processors.
> 


Well, my opinion is that OS/2 is another "New Coke" flop.


> I agree with Jim, it's going to be a while before symmetric multiprocessing
> reaches down to the class of machine that you can pick up by yourself.  It

My Systempro at work supports dual symmetric processors. I haven't tried
to pick it up lately. 
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