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From: nather@utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather)
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Subject: Re: What other topics besides RISC?
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Date: Tue, 24-Apr-84 11:16:23 EST
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	A question about current architectural research:

	There seem to be two currently popular basic configurations for
computer systems: a) Time-shared cpus that run many jobs "simultaneously"
on a single cpu (or a pair of them); b) single- user mini or micro computers.
Is there any economy of scale in building a set of independent cpus in one
box, such that each user gets one of them, sharing memory and i/o resources?
The memory would have to be multi-ported -- is this impractical?

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                                       Ed Nather
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                                       Astronomy Dept., U. of Texas, Austin