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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Address Space on the Amiga (was Re: Need info on exceptions)
Summary: Wisecrack
Keywords: Queen's -, Florida -s
Message-ID: <6997@well.UUCP>
Date: 1 Sep 88 06:34:33 GMT
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Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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Quote: "Elephants are useful friends / Equipped with handles at both ends."

In article <673@super.ORG> rminnich@metropolis.UUCP (Ronald G Minnich) writes:
>P.S. I think the days of 'king of the CPU' are numbered, if not gone.
>People *like* building solutions that involve multiple workers. 
>It is so much easier. 

	I can see it now:  The year 2108.  The new Amiga 4.29e32 is
released.  It has one CEO processor; ten processors to carry out the CEO's
directions, kept on a seperate PCB (board of directors); several dozen
processors to manage internal operations; and about a hundred processors to
do the actual work, controlled by a number of supervisory processors.

	Communication between the processors is a strict tree, with the CEO
at the root.  Processors distribute data to all processors beneath them; no
processor may communicate to another processor at its own level without
going passing the data through the processor above it for approval.  Any
attempt to communicate without going through the proper channels results in
the offending processor being taken off-line.

	The system is reasonably efficient, but you can't really do anything
creative with it.  Also, the worker processors have this annoying tendency
to cease working until the owner agrees to allow them to work less and
consume more current.

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