Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!aglew From: aglew@oberon.csg.uiuc.edu (Andy Glew) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Multi-processor NeXT ( was: Re: Next computer ) Message-ID: Date: 12 Feb 90 22:15:03 GMT References: <8859@portia.Stanford.EDU< <7341@pdn.paradyne.com> <1990Feb8.153727.13525@mm.uucp> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Distribution: usa Organization: University of Illinois, Computer Systems Group Lines: 14 In-Reply-To: ken@mm.uucp's message of 8 Feb 90 15:37:27 GMT >Motorola can put at least 2, if not 4 88000s on a Eurocard (VME) format >board (actually smaller than the NeXT NuBus card). The 88200 CMMUs >do all sorts of nice things like hardware cache coherency, etc. >NuBus, similarly, was designed with cheap multiprocessing in mind. >Slide a board or two like that in the NeXT, teach Mach how to play >ball, and you've got a lot of horsepower in that cube. Why not just buy the multiprocessor 88K system from Motorola Microcomputer Division with VME and SCSI peripherals and colour graphics? (I wanted to put MACH on it, but I couldn't persuade Motorola to give one to my research group.) -- Andy Glew, aglew@uiuc.edu