From: pontius@twonky.btv.ibm.com (Dale Pontius)
Subject: Re: GNAT and symmetric multi-processing!
Date: 1995/04/05
Date: 1995-04-05T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3lu314$m7u@twonky.btv.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3lpto7$9ra@toads.pgh.pa.us
In article <3lpto7$9ra@toads.pgh.pa.us>, tore@lis.pitt.edu (Tore Joergensen) writes:
> John Howard (jhoward@solar.sky.net) wrote:
> : [deleted] I believe that OS/2 performs
> : symmetric multi-processing (SMP).
>
> There is a version of OS/2 that does SMP, but I don't know if it will
> distribute threads (ie. ada-tasks) or only processes. The rationale
> (III.3.7) mention dividing programs in to partitions. "Partitions
> are intended to support distributed processing,...". I guess partitioning
> is overkill for SMP :-) If the operating system doesn't SMPs the tasks,
> then you could use OS-calls to make processes (but that isn't portable).
I believe I remember hearing that SMP OS/2 can distribute threads
among processors.
Dale Pontius
(NOT speaking for IBM)
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1995-04-02 0:00 GNAT and symmetric multi-processing! Chris Morgan
1995-04-02 0:00 ` John Howard
1995-04-03 0:00 ` Tore Joergensen
1995-04-05 0:00 ` Dale Pontius [this message]
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