Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 20:35:16 +0100 From: Adrian Wontroba <aw1@stade.co.uk> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Message-ID: <19980810203516.B7341@stade.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <19980810083241.L11095@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 08:32:41AM %2B0930 References: <19980809104012.P14475@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.3.89.9808091311.A6903-0100000@netcom3> <19980810083241.L11095@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 08:32:41AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > Oh, sure, when you have multiple CPUs. I think we were talking about > software multiplexing a physical system. It can be done - several ICL 2900 series mainframes concurrently ran two different operating systems, with different underlying instruction sets, on a single CPU (OCP). This allowed people to get rid of their old hardware sooner. The software multiplexing was performed by the OCP microcode. -- Adrian Wontroba, Stade Computers Limited. phone: (+44) 121 681 6677 Mail info@accu.org for information about the Association of C and C++ Users or see <http://www.accu.org/>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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