Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:21:07 05/02/01
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On May 02, 2001 at 18:36:58, Christophe Theron wrote: >On May 02, 2001 at 14:46:03, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On May 02, 2001 at 13:47:15, Ed Schröder wrote: >> >>> >>>I started with a SMP version perhaps even earlier then Stefan. >>> >>>Ed >>> >> >> >>This says two things: >> >>1. You have finally moved to windows, since SMP in DOS is not possible. >>(or Linux or whatever, of course). > > > >It is actually of course possible. > >Don't tell me you can't imagine ways to do it. > Nope. The kernel _itself_ is not thread-safe. Which means system calls would not be thread safe. Would be a lot of fun to debug _that_. Although I doubt you would get to the debug stage with APIC interrupt handling that would blow DOS out of the water. > > > Christophe > > > > > >>2. You also chose to keep your effort secret for reasons that I won't try >>to determine or understand. >> >>But again, here, you pay your money and take your chances. If you keep an >>SMP version secret, then you can't realistically expect anyone to ask you to >>enter it in an important event. >> >>I don't buy the "they should have asked." They could just as easily say >>"you should have told us." >> >>Since neither program has played a public game, it is hard for me to determine >>how "serious" all this really is. It could range anywhere from "vaporware" >>to "sort of working" to "really good parallel performance". If it is the >>latter, then keeping it secret _really_ makes no sense. If it is one of >>the former, then wanting it considered makes no sense. In short, it makes no >>sense to me, period... no matter what has happened.
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