[comp.arch] What's a multiprocessor, smirk

mark@mips.COM (Mark G. Johnson) (07/15/89)

(heard at Stanford):

     Multi-processors are just a way of using up excess memory bandwidth. :-)
     If you don't have any, don't build em.

peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) (07/17/89)

In article <23365@obiwan.mips.COM>, mark@mips.COM (Mark G. Johnson) writes:
>      Multi-processors are just a way of using up excess memory bandwidth. :-)

I must most respectfully note that the same has been said of RISCs.

>      If you don't have any, don't build em.

Or make some.

Still, it *is* a memorable quote.
-- 
Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.
Business: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. | Multiprocessors are just a
Personal: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com.   `-_-' | way of using up excess memory
Quote: Have you hugged your wolf today?  'U`  | bandwidth. - mark@mips.com