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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
Subject: Re: basic question on Ada tasks and running on different cores
Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 21:43:53 +0200
Date: 2012-05-06T21:43:53+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877gwp858m.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wcc397dieg4.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com

Robert A Duff writes:
> Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:
>
>> 8/3 CPU
>>
>>                The aspect CPU is an expression, which shall be of type
>>                System.Multiprocessors.CPU_Range.
>
> If there's more than one of them, how can they be "central"?

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.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-05-06 19:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-06  7:38 basic question on Ada tasks and running on different cores Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-05-06  7:59 ` Gautier write-only
2012-05-06 10:02 ` Simon Wright
2012-05-06 10:31   ` Ludovic Brenta
2012-05-06 14:14     ` Robert A Duff
2012-05-06 16:07       ` Vinzent Hoefler
2012-05-06 19:43       ` Ludovic Brenta [this message]
     [not found]         ` <15qdq7df9cji7htp52i9d5f8sqsgmisc3b@invalid.netcom.com>
2012-05-06 21:24           ` Ludovic Brenta
2012-05-06 14:13 ` Robert A Duff
2012-05-07  7:36 ` anon
2012-05-08  7:08   ` Maciej Sobczak
2012-05-08  9:02     ` anon
2012-05-08  9:52       ` Ludovic Brenta
2012-05-09 12:28         ` anon
2012-05-10  2:20           ` Randy Brukardt
2012-05-11  2:38             ` NatarovVI
2012-05-11  8:30               ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-05-16 15:40                 ` NatarovVI
2012-05-16 18:03                   ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-05-12  0:33               ` Randy Brukardt
2012-05-12 10:57                 ` Stephen Leake
2012-05-15  6:55                   ` Randy Brukardt
2012-05-15 22:54                     ` Shark8
2012-05-16 15:54                 ` NatarovVI
2012-05-17  0:11                   ` Randy Brukardt
2012-05-17  1:06                     ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-05-17  6:50                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-18  4:12                       ` Randy Brukardt
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