Adding Symmetric Multiprocessing to Amiga UNIX.

[Kent Paul Dolan]

 dvp at sequent.com (Dan Vander Ploeg) writes:
> Marc Barrett:

>> Although this version of UNIX does not support symmetric
>> multiprocessing as it is written, other companies -- including
>> Solbourne, Sequent, Corollary, Pyramid, Encore, ALR, and Compaq --
>> have successfully modified older versions of AT&T UNIX System V to
>> support symmetric multiprocessing.

> It was announced a few months ago that Sequent is working with AT&T to
> add SMP to SYS V.

And of course, the really interesting case is not the rather imbalanced
'040/'030 pair, but the situation when several '040's are slotted in.

There have already been successful experiments distributing graphics
processing of the sort useful for multimedia work across networked
cpu's.  It would probably work a lot better to distribute similar tasks
across a fast bus with common memory, instead.

Anybody want to bring up Linda on the Amiga?  ;-)

Kent, the man from xanth.
<xanthian at Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <xanthian at well.sf.ca.us>