Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!dptcdc!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!me!yap
From: yap@me.utoronto.ca (Davin Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: 88K in the NeXT cube?
Message-ID: <89Feb19.224743est.19167@me.utoronto.ca>
Date: 20 Feb 89 03:47:39 GMT
References: <899@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> <66400001@mcdurb>
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Organization: University of Toronto Mechanical Engineering
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In article <66400001@mcdurb> mmeyer@mcdurb.Urbana.Gould.COM writes:
>
>If my memory serves me correctly, Tektronix has a 88k NuBus card
>available for the MacII.  The Mac2 is running a 10MHz NuBus not the 
>25 MHz NuBus that the NeXT machine runs.
>
>> Mach should be able to handle 2 processors, right?
>
>Mach is able to handle two homogeneous processors very nicely.  At CMU
>they have Mach running on multi-processor Vaxen, and I think Encore
>machines and Sequents.
>
>Handling heterogeneous processors however, is a very different animal.
>
>		--morris

Ok.  I haven't been reading this news group, so forgive me if I'm
reiterating someone elses comments, but how about an 'Edge Inc.' coprocessor
for the beast?  I figure it should fit in the cube - even if it takes
more than one slot - and it executes all? 68??? instructions in about two
cycles (last I heard).  Would this be too expensive?  Is anyone listening
in Arizona?

Davin?
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