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Subject: Re: The Future: Asymetrical Multiprocessing

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 18:08:00 06/18/02

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On June 18, 2002 at 20:35:00, Robert Henry Durrett wrote:

>Well, if people only resort to AMP when they absolutely have no choice, then
>they are unlikely to discover any of AMPs merits.  It is only when they are
>willing to explore the unknown that they will see what is possible.

The thing is, SMP is kind of a superset of AMP. You can do message passing on an
SMP computer if you want, but it's kind of a waste. (Extra work involved.)

>P.S. I hope my liberal use of smileys is keeping me out of trouble.

I don't think you're in any trouble. :)

-Tom



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