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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: multiprocessing (030 + 040)
Message-ID: <21390@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 8 May 91 16:30:39 GMT
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Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <11890@uwm.edu> jonas@convex.csd.uwm.edu (Jonas K Manske) writes:
>After reading all the articles on turning the Amiga 3000 into a multi-
>processing machine, I had this thought.  Why not get the Mach kernel to
>run on the Amiga (the NeXT using the 040 has it).

Be careful when you say "the Mach kernel".  There have been plenty of Mach
releases that were not the SMP version.  I don't know just what NeXT has in
their OS, but it's not necessarily any easier to get a NeXT up and 
multiprocessing than an Amiga.  Especially considering that most NeXTs don't
have any way to add additional processors, unless you want loosely coupled
multiprocessing over Ethernet or something.

>Wouldn't this be the most logical next step to getting a TRUE multiprocessing
>system?

It would be A step.  Mach certainly isn't the only path to multiprocessing.
AT&T has already announced plans for a SMP version of System V Release 4 UNIX.
From the Amiga point of view, an AmigaOS release that could deal with 
multiple processors in some reasonable fashion would also be more immediately
useful than yet another new OS.

>jonas


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