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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!alistair
- From: alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks)
- Subject: Re: Looking for details on symmetric multiprocessing
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.183948.6441@microsoft.com>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 18:39:48 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Nov19.161155.27217@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- In article <1992Nov19.161155.27217@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> plouff@kali.enet.dec.com (Wes Plouff) writes:
- >
- >After reading the regrettably short sections of _Inside Windows NT_
- >which describe multiprocessing, I'd like to know more. Can anyone
- >provide a pointer to descriptions of the requirements - hardware, BIOS
- >and HAL - for multiprocessor implementations of Windows NT? Is any
- >technical description available for the publically demonstrated NCR
- >multiprocessor server machine?
-
- The HAL developers kit is not yet ready, though it should be quite
- soon. I notice you're from DEC - you've definately got access to
- this information internally, since you're a source-code licensee,
- so I'd contact people in Dec-West
-
- The requirements are for a memory architecture where each processor
- has an identical view of memory. An ideal architecture has each
- rpocessor equally able to process i/o, though this is not a
- requirement
-
- -- Alistair
-