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From: dkhusema@faui44.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Dirk Husemann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 68030 box, Cringely, Comdex
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Date: 2 Nov 88 12:02:07 GMT
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From article <881024222344.098664@PCO-MULTICS.HBI.HONEYWELL.COM>, by Friesen@PCO-MULTICS.HBI.HONEYWELL.COM:
> 
> ... 
> 
> From my understanding, it will be Helios, which is far from UNIX.  (this
> move to select Helios seems to show the importance of the European
> market, that is what is equivilent there to our UNIX here).  Can anyone
			  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> comment on this?

	I will: Helios is just a UNIX look-alike, it isn't equivalent to
it (in my view). Why? Well, essentially, it's been designed to run on a
network of transputers and not the 68030! 

	Helios is a multiprocessor system, though it's *not* a tightly coupled 
multiprocessor system (i.e. shared memory, etc) but rather a loosely coupled
multiprocessor system, each transputer is running its own (Helios-)kernel. 
Communication is done via transputer links (If I remember correctly, 20Mbit/s).
Thus, Helios for the Atari could perhaps be compared to Mach (-> NeXT,
comp.sys.next) which *is* a *tightly coupled* multiprocessor system.
> 
> 
> Aric Friesen
> 
> Addresses:
> 
> Genie:  A.FRIESEN
> 
> ARPA:  Friesen%PCO@BCO-MULTICS.ARPA

	Dirk Husemann

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