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Date:      Mon, 28 Apr 1997 20:03:12 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@dk.tfs.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        black@zen.cypher.net (Ben Black), kory@avatar.com, brownie@earthling.net, csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk, smp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Quad Pro 150 motherboard? 
Message-ID:  <291.862250592@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Apr 1997 10:17:05 PDT." <199704281717.KAA02093@phaeton.artisoft.com> 

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In message <199704281717.KAA02093@phaeton.artisoft.com>, Terry Lambert writes:

>The PPro's are stackable without additional electronics external
>to the processor.  This makes it a *lot* easier to do multiple
>CPU's up to large numbers.

The original design was for up to four PP's to be stackable.  
Unfortunately it transpired to not be the case (for reasons 
for signal integrity I belive, and therefore 4*PP cards have
a number of buffers more than 2*PP cards.

>My goal would be to have incremental compiles going on in edit sessions
>so that when I was done editing, the code was read to run.  I hate this
>"wait for the compile" BS.

Ever seen or heard about the TeX WYSIWYG computer built with 
InMos transputers ? :-)


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