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From: jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr)
Subject: Re: dual procesor motherboards the way forward?
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Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 00:33:05 GMT
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Jim Doyle (doyle@OEC.COM) wrote:
: 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.
:
	I knew this would be good.
	Let's see if I can enlighten you. 
	Which is dominant in program coding, explict or
	implict functionality?

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Jesus Monroy Jr                                          jmonroy@netcom.com
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