[comp.sys.amiga.tech] Parallel?

barton@latcs1.oz.au (The Wasp) (07/13/90)

If an amiga 3000 say, had an '040 card in the cpu slot (from replies to my last
letter I now know what this really entails) the '030 becomes dormant, RIGHT?


Is it possible to have boths cpus working at once (the old divide and conquer
technique!) via a parallel compiler?  Is this posible under the current OS or
would a new OS need to be developed.


Doug
barton@latcs1.oz.au

BTW:  This isn't the post I intended to post!  I have the original back
home still on ami!!!  Email me if you are interested

guineau@wjg.enet.dec.com (07/13/90)

> If an amiga 3000 say, had an '040 card in the cpu slot (from replies
to my last
> letter I now know what this really entails) the '030 becomes dormant, RIGHT?
>
>
> Is it possible to have boths cpus working at once (the old divide and conquer
>  technique!) via a parallel compiler?  Is this posible under the
current OS or
> would a new OS need to be developed.

I believe the answer is that it requires hardware support from the 040
card. The Zorro III
(A3000) bus supports the necessary signals, there is no O/S support (yet?!?)

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