[comp.sys.atari.st] Faster Loading : Helios on ATW, Transputers

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