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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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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.

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Ludovic Brenta.