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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Ada OS Kernel features
Date: 5 Sep 2001 06:16:07 -0500
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In article <9n4euv$t9m$1@slb6.atl.mindspring.net>, "Brian Catlin" <briancatlin@mindspring.com> writes:
> What sort of features would be desirable/required in the kernel?

> Symmetric multi-processing:
>   This is the same capability general-purpose operating systems such as NT, VMS,
> etc. have.  Each processor is of the same type, and has the same view of memory.
> It then becomes irrelevant which processor is running a particular task.

You leave out a lot of big systems if you don't support NUMA.