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From: rwa@auvax.UUCP (Ross Alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: General purpose commercial multiprocessor systems without shared-memory
Summary: there's at least one...
Keywords: multiprocessor, UNIX
Message-ID: <646@auvax.UUCP>
Date: 20 May 88 01:00:59 GMT
References: <2552@ihwpt.ATT.COM>
Organization: Athabasca U., Alberta, Canada
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Bruce Wong @ somewhere.att asks about non-shared memory general purpose
multiprocessor timesharing-type machines (see subject line).  There
is such a beast - the AT&T 3B4000.  Runs Unix Sys V3.x, too; but
shared memory stuff is not supported between processes running on
disjoint processors.  So this machine's Unix is _not_ strictly SVID
compliant.  I wonder what Mr.  Gwynn @ smoke.brl has to say about
that ?  I personally was not teribly impressed.  As an aside, it
seems to me that the hardware would run a 4.2BSD kernal without any
rude violations of the BSD interprocess primitives ;-)

Ross Alexander, Athabasca University