Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Nov 1996 06:10:04 -0500 (EST) | From | "Mark H. Wood" <> | Subject | Re: FYI: I2O Architecture (fwd) |
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On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Mark Hemment wrote:
> With the processing power that will be on some of the I2O cards, we > might find network protocol stacks (TCP?), etc, being off-loaded from the > central CPUs. > Would this be a step backwards or forwards from SMP?
Dunno. If you consider the CDC 6000 architecture a step backward, then it's a step backward. I haven't thought about PP programming in a long time....
Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer MWOOD@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU Those who will not learn from history are doomed to reimplement it.
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