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From: nelsn@houxj.UUCP (M.NELSON)
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Subject: Info needed on NCR 32/800
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Date: Fri, 12-Jun-87 16:45:45 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 12 16:45:45 1987
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      It has been a few months since NCR announced their first microprocesser 
based multiprocessor (NCR Tower 32/800).  
Has anyone seen it yet ?  Is there any
benchmark data available yet ?
      From the sales literature I have, it is a Multibus II based
message passing multiprocessor and it does not have any shared memory.
Could anybody shed some light on how shared memory is supported in the system
(under UNIX).  How does the operating system work ?  
How does it do load balancing ? How about message passing  ? 
Is it the way to go ?
Any other comments are appreciated. 

Thanks.

-- 
Matthew Nelson
AT&T Information Systems
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