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From: bwong@ihwpt.ATT.COM (bruce wong)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: General purpose commercial multiprocessor systems without shared-memory
Keywords: multiprocessor, UNIX
Message-ID: <2553@ihwpt.ATT.COM>
Date: 19 May 88 13:49:19 GMT
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In article <2552@ihwpt.ATT.COM> bwong@ihwpt.ATT.COM (bruce wong) writes:
>
>Do general purpose commercial multiprocessor systems *without* shared-memory
>exist ?

From one response I got to yesterday's posting I realize that I should
clarify my request.

By general purpose multiprocessor system I mean that the machine looks like
a uniprocessor machine to the user at the shell level and at the application
programming level.  The user is not concerned at all about processor allocation
and application partitioning.  This probably means that parallelism occurs at
the process level.

I read in EE Times that DEC has a version of their OS that makes their
multiprocessor shared-memory VAXen look like a uniprocessor machine.
Please tell me if this is incorrect.
NOTE: I'm interested in similar machines *without* shared-memory.

Please repy via EMAIL.  I will post a summary after sufficient verbiage has
been received.
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