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From: bwong@ihwpt.ATT.COM (bruce wong)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: General purpose commercial multiprocessor systems without shared-memory
Keywords: multiprocessor, UNIX
Message-ID: <2552@ihwpt.ATT.COM>
Date: 18 May 88 17:58:36 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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Do general purpose commercial multiprocessor systems *without* shared-memory
exist ?

I know there are "general purpose" shared-memory machines like:

	recent VAXen
	recent Crays
	Sequents

I know there are "application specific" non-shared-memory machines like:

	hypercubes
	the Connection Machine
	Transputer arrays

Are there any general purpose non-shared-memory machines out there ?

I heard that DEC has a version of its OS that hides the multiprocessor
nature of its new machines; that is, you can treat them like bigger
uniprocessor machines.
Are there non-shared-memory machines with such an OS ?

Please EMAIL all replys.  I will post a summary at a future time.
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