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From: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: transputer
Message-ID: <1816@netmbx.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 88 22:29:24 GMT
References: <28201@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Reply-To: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Organization: netmbx Public Access Unix, Berlin
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Keywords: process communication parallel Yeah!

In article <28201@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> wallman-george@CS.Yale.EDU (Natuerlich!) writes:
>But but but. Limiting the OS to run as many processes
>as there are processor is no step forward. Even if each processor gets
The Transputer processors are able to run multiple processes on one
processor. He does the multitasking in hardware (!).
The idea is: one T414 runs an operating system and some applications.
TWO of them will run the same thing (almost) twice as fast (if there are
any asynchronous processes to be spread over the network).
>1MB space (sounds about right for a personal computer) and we have four
>processors. Would we like to waste 1MB for my printer spooler,
Whith multitasking you print in backround. You need no "Spooler".
>I mean of course you can't compile  plain vanilla BSDxy and hope that 
>that would work instantly. 
Right. There is no support for virtual memory (or MMU or the like).
T's are _different_. Nothing like the old stuff.
>I strongly believe that a vendor like Atari who comes out with an 
>incompatible OS and no major backing (like the Defense Dept. or IBM 
>(or is that the same ?) ) will even with super-duper superior hardware 
                 ^^ almost...
>make no dent in the workstation/upscale-personal-computer market.
Hmm, Perihelion (the people, who made not just Helios but the ABAQ as
well) intends HELIOS to become THE operating system  for T's.
It runs even on a PC with a TEK4/8 or Inboard B004 (seen in Hannover).
>Natuerlich!
Of course!
hase
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