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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: basic question on Ada tasks and running on different cores
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Dennis Lee Bieber writes:
> On Sun, 06 May 2012 21:43:53 +0200, Ludovic Brenta
> <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> declaimed the following in comp.lang.ada:
>
>> Mainframes have many "central" processing units and dozens of peripheral
>> processing units, e.g. embedded in disk and network controllers.  They
>> also have "peripheral" processors dedicated to system monitoring and
>> maintenance, i.e. the operator console or its modern equivalent.
>
> 	They still make "mainframes" <G>

Yes. Mostly to run thousands of Linux virtual machines, and because
their disk subsystems are unmatched in performance and reliability.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.