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From: michaelw@microsoft.UUCP (Michael Winser)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Message queues
Message-ID: <5668@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 8 May 89 17:09:06 GMT
References: <279@celit.UUCP>
Reply-To: michaelw@microsoft.UUCP (Michael Winser)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <279@celit.UUCP> hutch@celerity.UUCP (Jim Hutchison) writes:
>Has anyone seen/heard of an architecture which aided kernel message passing by
>supplying hardware message queues for *fast* message queueing and dequeueing?

The transputer, I believe.

Michael
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