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Date:      Mon, 28 Apr 1997 23:09:26 -0700
From:      Chris Browning <brownie@earthling.net>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD-SMP@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: SMP
Message-ID:  <33659096.10DA@earthling.net>
References:  <199704281724.KAA02110@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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> Compare this to Sequent's Dynix, which scales well to 32 processors,
> or Thinking Machines, which scales into the thousands of processors.

The Sequent S81 at Georgia Tech, which uses Dynix, is not an SMP
machine.  Some of it's processor us a master-slave relationship.
Scheduling occurs on the masters.  I believe the CM's also had 
some dedicated nodes for different purposes, thus not making them
SMP.

Chris





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