20 Apr
2008
20 Apr
'08
11:39 p.m.
Back in the late '80s and early '90s, I worked for BBN Advanced Computers Inc
where we build a NUMA parallel processor called the Butterfly. The first incarnation
of the machine ran utilized 68k CPUs and ran a proprietary OS. Later versions of
the 68k machine used the 020 with memory management and ran a variation of Mach/Unix.
The largest of this machine was 128 processors. The follow on to the 68k machine was
called the TC2000 and used 88k CPUs, the largest machine sold running with 256
processors. It was pretty impressive!
Ray Arachelian wrote:
Just out of curiosity, were there any machines out
there that were built
from multiple MC68000's CPU's?