jbww@ukc.ac.uk (J.B.W.Webber) (08/04/89)
In article <257@marvin.moncam.co.uk> emmo@moncam.co.uk (Dave Emmerson) writes: > >>WORM drives beat this problem. Maybe a proper loading mechanism >>will come out with machines such as the ATW, where one processor >>loads, while the other is already running. > >While the other processor is already running WHAT? i.e. a shell : thus the user is up and running, without having to wait for the whole network to boot, ramdisks/caches to be filled. By the time one is ready to, say, C compile, the compiler parts, libraries etc. are sitting in memory, on the relevant processors. i.e. the first part of a pipeline of processes : by the time the data pops out of the first part of the pipeline, the program can be in place for the next. Perfection is not yet with us, but I like what already exists. (My experience is limited to the Helios OS, from Perihelion). beau webber jbww@ukc.ac.uk