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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!newsfeed.ACO.net!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!uunet!news.oec.com!outland.oec.com!doyle From: doyle@OEC.COM (Jim Doyle) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: dual procesor motherboards the way forward? Date: 2 Oct 1994 17:04:02 GMT Organization: Open Environment Corporation Lines: 20 Message-ID: <36mp62$hk@exile.oec.com> References: <Cww6x9.1A0@gnome.co.uk> <36hous$fdv@exile.oec.com> <jmonroyCx10rt.4FF@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: outland.oec.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Jesus Monroy Jr (jmonroy@netcom.com) wrote: : I disagree with both your premises. : I beleive, first, that the Mach kernel "model" is : inefficent and is not a good choice for SMP. : Bill Jolitz agrees to an extent with me. : He has thrown out the Mach memory manager from : 386bsd; claiming - it was getting in the way. : I state that the thread management and thread scheme : are definitely in the way. You are high! Come back and talk when you come down off your trip. Better yet, go read some of the literature. I'm sure you'll find that some of the SOSP and USENIX papers on Mach VM and threads will enlighten you. -- Jim Doyle <doyle@oec.com>