29 May
2009
29 May
'09
4:38 p.m.
Looks like the D825 in 1963 was the first pratical MP system.
A nice summery can be found at:
http://tinyurl.com/l92hnc
aka
http://wiki.cc.gatech.edu/folklore/index.php?
title=Some_Burroughs_Transistor_Computers&printable=yes#The_D825
About 10 years later IBM shipped a bunch of 370/158 and 168s as MPs and APs
The MPs were 2 standalone CPUs frames bound at the Hip, with an MP frame,
while the APs were a second ALU frame that attached as an extension to a single CPU
frame.
In the case of the IBM MPs there was not only 2 processors but there was two I/O busses
for that matter two complete systems.
These were very popular with Banking and large billing applications.
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