Gary McGovern wrote:
> 
> I'm interested to learn something about that. Would that mean an embedded
> Squeak or a particular OS ?
> 
> Regards,
> Gary
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <pp001600 at mindspring.com>
> To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 10:53 PM
> Subject: Exploiting multiprocessors
> 
> > I found a "Squeak End" brief discussion of the topic 'native threads':
> >
> >     http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/1235
> >
> > Has anyone thought about this some more, or the more general topic of how
> to exploit multiprocessors, potentially very many of them?
> >

Well, the multiprocessor bit would mean using an OS which supports
multiple processors. (On Intel that means NT4/5 or Linux). I'm sure
there's someone out there running Squeak on a dual (or more!) processor
board. After you go beyond one board, it starts to get very tricky
indeed. Different processes seem to respond to different kinds of
parallel processing. 
( /usr/doc/howto/en/Parallel-Processing-HOWTO.gz and
/usr/doc/howto/en/Beowulf-HOWTO.gz for some ideas and references -- on
SuSE, at least).

I know that Jecel and others have discussed (massively) parallel
smalltalks on this very list.

Cheers

John (currently about to give up the ghost on trying to get Linux to use
all its RAM and run on swap...guess that pre-emptive multi-tasking is
just too clever for me to beat!)

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